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March 22, 2003

Well it wasn't exactly '68 re-visited but you can't fault the Dialogue.

There must be something about Chicago and Grant Park. It was the site of the infamous '68 Democratic Convention protests, "The Whole World's Watching", and just this week it's where "war protest LIGHT" began. Some 10,000 folks turned out for the event and proceeded to march peacfully right up Lakeshore Drive. Of course, rush hour commuters wouldn't agree with the "peaceful" part.

Makes you think of that great tune from the band Chicago recorded over two sessions from September 20-29 in 1971. Titled Dialogue, I always thought the song was incredibly timeless. You can imagine a setting where two college students draw up a chair and a beer after a day at the lecture factory. In this case, it was Terry Kath and Peter Cetera, AKA Chicago's Soulful Voice and Sky Voice discussing their respective views "bout the way that things are going?"

Each of us knew someone who fit Terry's lyric (the deep thinking activist) and Peter's lyric (the go with the flow passive type) No doubt, it's a dialogue that continues today between students with differing opinions "bout the way things are going?"

Here's to the Dialogue:

Terry: Are you optimistic 'bout the way that things are going?
Pete: No, I never ever think of it at all.
Terry: Don't you ever worry when you see what's going down?
Pete: Well, I try to mind my business, that is, no business at all.

Terry: When it's time to function as a feeling human being, will your Bachelor of Arts help you get by?
Pete: I hope to study further, a few more years or so. I also hope to keep a steady high.

Terry: Will you try to change things, use the power that you have, The power of a million new ideas?
Pete: What is this power you speak of and the need for things to change? I always thought that ev'rything was fine, ev'rything is fine.

Terry: Don't you feel repression just closing in around?
Pete: No, the campus here is very very free.
Terry: Does it make you angry the way war is dragging on?
Pete: Well I hope the President knows what he's into, I don't know. Oooh I just don't know.

Terry: Don't you see starvation in the city where you live, all the needless hunger, all the needless pain?
Pete: I haven't been there lately, the country is so fine, but my neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause they haven't got the time, Haven't got the time.

Terry: Thank you for the talk, you know you really eased my mind, I was troubled by the shapes of things to come.
Pete: Well, if you had my outlook, your feelings would be numb, You'd always think that ev'rything was fine. Ev'ry thing is fine.

We can make it better (x3) Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
We can change the world now (x3)
We can save the children (x3)
We can make it happen (x3)

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