Terry   Are you optimistic   'bout the way things are going?      Peter   No, I never ever think of it at all      Terry   Don't you ever worry   When you see what's going down?      Peter   No, I try to mind my business,   that is, no business at all      Terry   When it's time to function   as a feeling human being, will your   Bachelor of Arts help you get by?      Peter   I hope to study further,   a few more years or so. I also hope   to keep a steady high      Terry   Will you try to change   things, use the power that you have,   the power of a million new ideas?      Peter   What is this power you   speak of and this need for things to   change? I always thought   that everything was fine      Terry   Don't you feel repression just   closing in around?      Peter   No, the campus here is very, very free      Terry   Does it make you angry   the way war is dragging on?      Peter   Well, I hope the President   knows what he's into, I don't know      Terry   Don't you ever see the starvation   in the city where you live, all the   needless hunger all the   needless pain?      Peter   I haven't been there lately,   the country is so fine, but my   neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause   they haven't got the time      Terry   Thank you for the talk,   you know you really eased my mind   I was troubled by the shapes   of things to come.      Peter   Well, if you had my   outlook your feelings would be   numb, you'd always think   that everything was fine