Boston 2015

Light

• What Exactly Are We Doing Here? by Taymon Beal
• Joy to the World by Three Dog Night ◦ A very generic celebratory song, silly and possibly for kids
• Garden Song by John Denver ◦ Yay for farming!
• With a Little Help from My Friends by The Beatles ◦ My community protects me from my weaknesses
• Imagine by John Lennon ◦ It could be a wonderful world if we just stopped messing it up

Twilight

• Move the World by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of ambition, of gathering leverage and allies
• The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies

Eve

• Howl by Allen Ginsberg
• Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander
• Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
• No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim (from Into the Woods) ◦ An anthem of communal support
• Sinner Man: Pandemic by Nina Simone ◦ Everything failing in the face of a true pandemic

Night

• The Malthusian Trap Song by James Babcock ◦ On second thought, maybe farming was a mistake
• The Goddess of Everything Else by Scott Alexander
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Dawn

• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire

Light

• Snoopy's Christmas by George David Weiss and Hugo & Luigi ◦ A surreal song about Christmas truces in the Peanuts comic strip
• Lean on Me by Bill Withers ◦ A pledge of support
• What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong ◦ The world is awesome just the way it is
• 500 Million, But Not a Single One More by Jai Dhyani
• Old Devil Time by Pete Seeger ◦ A boast of coming collective victory over time, fear, pain and hate