David CookEditor’s note: David Cook is a local freelance writer whose column will appear on Mondays in the Times Free Press.
Maybe Pete Seeger said it best.
Concert after concert, the folk singer and patriot would often stroll onto the stage carrying like an old friend his long-neck banjo, upon which were inscribed nine profound words.
“This instrument surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.”
We need those nine words today. We are tired of hate. And emptiness and fear. And the doom and gloom. We need hate and all its little cousins — despair, ignorance, violence — to surrender. We need another boss.