There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight,
And the oaks ignore their pleas.
The trouble with the maples,
(And they’re quite convinced they’re right.)
They say the oaks are just too lofty,
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can’t help their feelings,
If they like the way they’re made.
And they wonder why the maples,
Can’t be happy in their shade?

There is trouble in the Forest,
And the creatures all have fled.
As the Maples scream ‘Oppression!’
And the Oaks, just shake their heads.

So the maples formed a union,
And demanded equal rights.
‘These oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light.’
Now there’s no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal,
By hatchet,
Ax,
And saw.
Rush - The Trees.

Some songs are so right. Some songs are so apt and soothing. To express is a quality, and to grasp and understand the expression is an achievement and to praise the nice creation is the price.
In India, it is the current situation. They uses hatches ax and saw to keep down the intellect of the Able on the name of the inability of the enable. Moreover, they think it will bring equality. They never understand that if they will cut down the able, then who will produce for their own existence and development. They exercise reservations. They do not understand that what they must provide is equal opportunity rather than opposing the able and cutting it down. Let the able produce, you will get it anyways. The maples forget that without the shade of the oak, they cannot survive the strong sunlight and will meet the disaster.
This sweet song plainly explains how the inept people continue to oblige those able who are able with power and influence to turn to the will of those who are not valuable, resorting to aggression rather than rationale to reach their height.
This song of Rush asks: what are you, a gracious oak tree looking for the sun, reaching his aims and deciding further, or a weak maple, droning, crying and complaining about the wrongness of the Ability of Oak rather than attempting to enhance and better yourself by improving photosynthesis and nutrient assembly.
Many times, I faced the question, why there is no quantum discovery in India by Indian in the last 1000 years.
Many times, I blindly tried to oppose it. Many times, I thought it is a matter of my pride.
Nevertheless, I was wrong. Nationalism is wrong, statism is wrong, collectivism is completely wrong in any matters. I am not a religionist not a nationalist, a feminist nor am I any chauvinist.
.I is above them, I am I, an Individualist. I know myself.
When I asked some people if I own my mind and body, they tried to teach me socialism and spiritualism.
They told me how important it is to respect father and mother as they gave me my body and my brain.
Of what use is a life, if it is not rational, if it has achieved no progress, if it has been wasted whole life on behalf of useless irresponsible obligations?
Even I have raised questions that why Indians do not analyses, do not reason out things, do not researches on major issues concerning life, education, political, economical and sexual systems. Why they do not study of what worth the ill traditions are?
Why Indians keeps respecting the useless crap of religion whole time?
When I asked do I own my mind and my body, a guy started showing me his spiritual values.
He was teaching me spiritualism for my question if I own My mind and body!
That is the difference. They even do not think that they own their mind and Body.
85 out of 100 are such who do not thinks that they own their mind and body. They think that it is something divine, which they got but not other animals. they on a vague note do considers that they are better than animals, but they actually do not think it the achievement of human kind, they thinks some god or spiritual divine like Buddha gave them this special life. They still believe in cycles of life and death that they will take rebirth again and keep their karma on and on and they praise Buddha. They think they are better than Islamists or Hindus. The reality is, they are all equally fucked up as any other religionist.
They do not think that they can understand any thing by their own sense their own mind. However, they thinks to get greater truths and greater peace, they need to be thoughtless. Thoughtless means, they want to loose their mind.
They even do not like their mind. What will they achieve? What will they discover?

Then they ask why in India there was no scientific achievement in last 1000 years.
When since centuries Indians are trying to loose their mind because they hate their mind because they do not want to reason things out they do not want to think analyze seek and discover, then how can they achieve anything?

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still haven’t made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that’s clear-
I will choose Free Will.
Rush - Free Will.