Sunday, September 19, 2010

What to do when nothing is left or worth fighting for.

We live in a terribly boring era, a long way from the 1960s and 1970s, when people still gave a shit.
Where are the picket lines? Protest songs? Rallies? Or movements today? They are nowhere, because nothing is changing and no-one has the balls to try. People are all too content to say “fuck it, we have no power”, it may be true but it is certainly not good enough.
No-one should make the mistake of thinking the fights aren’t raging because everything is good, it is quite simply because no-one cares enough- the world has gone soft.
Even the supposed “rebellious” music of today, is GaGa and other throwbacks to Grace Jones and the glorious disco era, no true originals.
Where is our punk? Where is our underground hip-hop, where are our 60s protestors, peace activists, outlaw poets?
They are nowhere, we are soft.
It is not as if Iraq doesn’t deserve as much of our time as Vietnamn did, in many ways they’re utterly similar, its more no-one cares enough or has the courage to hold a sign and play their part.
And those that do are people like Neil Young, who did his part in the 60s.
Fuck, even the 90s had Rage and grunge, what do we have? Nothing, a big fat zero.
I wish I could fight, even in vain, for a better world, but the fight is over, and because we laid down our gloves and took the hits, we lost.
BO!
NP.

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