While lamenting the state of the world to some friends, I said, "It's like he's trying to rip the world apart." The song flowed from there. Themes of ignorance and arrogance kept bubbling up; they can make for a dangerous combination that leads to the kind of cruelty of which only humans are capable - and something that must be fought against in little everyday ways and in large terrifying ways. Our nature is always lurking, ready. -Hymie