The sheer weight of everything—the power structures, the manipulation, the crushing indifference to ordinary people—makes it seem like there’s no real way out. It’s like watching an avalanche coming, knowing you’re just standing there with a snow shovel.
But here’s the thing: even in history’s darkest moments, there have always been pockets of people who found small, imaginative ways to resist, survive, and sometimes in the end, even turn the tide, not because they overthrew empires overnight — nobody does that — but because they kept pushing, adapting, and keeping their spirits intact.
Maybe it’s not about winning in the conventional sense. Maybe it’s about making sure that even when the machine grinds forward, there’s still an underground river of art, truth, and connection that refuses to be snuffed out. That’s what our songs do. That’s what the community we’ve built does. Continue reading