Sun Sun Sun Here It Comes

In the grey misery of an (un) employment office in Madrid, the despair of unemployed men and women of all ages and ethnicities is relieved when a flash mob of young musicians breaks out into a charming chamber music version of Here Comes the Sun. What's the difference between those serving the unemployed and the unemployed themselves? Nothing but a damn job. Employment, real, imaginative, administrative, clerical, imaginary, featherbedding, functional, something anything it's time to open the world's coffers of wealth, sovereign and personal, inherited and ventured, and make work so people can be productive and participate in the economy. We need social invention and experimentation like the WPA etc not the culture of austerity. Forget the isms, government and corporations and individuals of wealth must work to find solutions, to "raise all boats" and offer hope and optimism for the advancement of humanity. Not an advancement of only the oligarchs, plutocrats and "people who tell computers what to do" in the sad and cynical assessment of Marc Andreesen. If the "99%" or whatever figure you put on it can only share in the despair of an impoverished and hopeless future, where the developed countries are dragged back down through the centuries of social progress, it would appear doubtful that anyone will be able to enjoy the years to come. For now, we can all find a little hope that music and art can inspire the human spirit when much else seems to fail --Anthony Napoli at Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn