This is Jack Johnson's Times Like These. In this song Jack is expressing the patterns of human behavior. He compares the ethics that are shared as a whole human race and the morals that make us different. One of my favorite lines goes as follows: "Those for peace and those for war but God bless these ones not those ones but these ones in times like these." This lyric really communicates the transcendentalist idea that everyone has a general view on what a utopia would look like. We all have an idea on how to make society better. "Most men gamble with her (fortune), and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God." writes Emerson in his article Self Reliance. If we're all gambling with our different ideas of what a perfect society should be like, does true perfection even exist?
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