I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.
Dar WilliamsBut I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
Dar WilliamsAs I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.
Dar WilliamsBasically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.
Dar Williams