Let it Be

Discoveries, new labels, new contradictions, and thus fresh human battles over the meaning of the discovery: opportunities to fight one another, and so the world keeps turning on its axis. Paul McCartney’s ‘Let It Be’, a song written at a time when societies were in turmoil and everything was thrown into the battle to liberate societies from the perceived yoke, doctrines, and imposed lifestyles, was answered by Paul with a deadpan “let it be,” nowadays often translated as ‘who cares’.

Actually, this is a very meaningful contribution to freedom of speech: a call that precisely ‘silence’ can be the most significant element of that freedom. The privilege of looking up, invoking an imaginary character, and hearing ‘let it be’ — and realizing that there are indeed no answers to the insane present other than the observation of ‘madness’; and that ‘let it be’ is the most effective way to ward off madness.

The world keeps turning, Insha Allah.

You do not need a dominator to be oppressed.

Oppression can also come from within: from addiction, from forced activism, from the despair your own mess leaves behind.

Maher’s voice says: Recognition is responsibility.
Without wisdom, no prosperity.
Without forgiveness, no tomorrow.

And so, like a snowplow, Let It Be pushes the madness aside,
And Insya Allah points the way upward.
Never despair. Keep on rolling.
Insya Allah.