I love it when things are simple. Black and white , good and bad, conservative and liberal. Yes and No. One or Zero in digital terms.
But life is full of spectrum. All everything is on the spectrum. And everything is multi-faceted and complex. in face , simplifying things is dangerous. It is basically how hatred and war start. Soldiers can’t be holding conflicting thoughts and a machine gun. They have to be steadfast and unwavering and believe that they are killing for the good of all and this is necessary. And this leads me somehow to Halloween. Our annual celebration of the dead. Is death dark ? Or is it the light at the end of the tunnel. A paradise at the end of misery. I don’t know and in fact I would contend, NO ONE KNOWS. That is the grand truth. We are in an unsolvable mystery which is driving us all mad. I’m not much for holidays but after some grand inspection a lot of my songs are rather dark. Not really Nick Cave dark, but dark in a large vacant abyss sort of way.