This song is powerful... and sad. What kuomika quoted is exactly what I'm feeling. It's an ominous feeling of an impending global war or something. A breakdown in the liberal vs. conservative tension.
And yes I feel it everywhere. It's like almost everything everyone is feeling nowadays is how to hate everyone else. From homophobia (the increasingly violent), to tea-partyers (the increasingly violent calls to action against 'socialists'), to conservatives (the anti-immigration law, thinly veiled latent racism, the hysterical Obama-blaming centered primarily on his being black), to religion (Fred Phelps, Islamic Terrorism, the slow mutation of Christianity into a religion of pointing fingers), to thought (anti-intellectualism, the growing resentment against scientists for 'taking away tax dollars'), To politics (the 'politics of fear', us against them platforms), to the environment (the apathy on global warming, the oil spill, and the decline of environmentalist mentality).
People's views are getting narrower and narrower, and some are already refusing to accept common humanity as a good enough reason to try and bridge the gaps. No one empathizes anymore. No one sees just how much suffering they are inflicting on other people. No one wants to see the long-term impacts of what they are demanding for.
If you don't know what I mean try reading comments in news stories sometime, the way people laugh at global disasters half the world away, the way people try to find out the race of a criminal and then blame it all on race if he turns out to be not white, the encouragement on shooting illegal border crossers on sight, the holier-than-thou arguments of the bible thumpers calling for the killing of homosexuals as if they were animals, the blanket blaming on terrorism where americans make it worse by provoking the peaceful muslim majority, the comparison of socialism to soviet communism as if they are even the same thing (they're not), the calls for war, greed (the refusal of people to have their tax dollars used in saving lives, the support of big companies for conservatives in exchange for tax breaks, the refusal to take responsibility of the fact that 1% of the population of America owns 35% of the nation's wealth, while the people who actually do the work, the bottom %40 divide 0.2% of the wealth among themselves. And you wonder why the economy collapsed).
History always repeats itself doesn't it? WW2 seems so far away now, 50 years is all it takes to forget the real horrors of war. No one seems to realize what they are asking for. Especially now that the threat of war doesn't anymore mean merely street fighting and tanks and airplanes. No.
If war broke out today it'd be nuclear.
It's scary because sometimes I feel like I'm the only one aware of it. The most powerful line in the song for me is this:
"Stand up and let me get a look at you
Can we all take a wider view"
EDIT: From homophobia (the refusal to accept it as not being a choice, the 'selective' reading when it comes to reading the Bible, the glee Christians show when gay people get killed for no reason)
EDIT: From homophobia (the refusal to accept it as not being a choice, the 'selective' reading when it comes to reading the Bible, the glee Christians show when gay people get killed for no reason)
And yeah one thing I forgot to add: the 'break' may still come out positive in the end. But yeah, it will come at a price.
And yeah one thing I forgot to add: the 'break' may still come out positive in the end. But yeah, it will come at a price.
I disagree. I think that as a country everyone is too "open minded". Which bythe way, open minded is just a eupehmism nowadays for liberal thought. Any conservative view is "closed-minded" My point is that homosexuals are widely accepted. I DONT think that feeling attracted to the same sex is a choice, but I know that acting on those feelings IS a choice. As for the song, I think it's interesting that he tries to feel positive about all this bad stuff, but at the end he realizes that homosexuality, drug addiction, and warmongering are destroying the American Dream. It's...
I disagree. I think that as a country everyone is too "open minded". Which bythe way, open minded is just a eupehmism nowadays for liberal thought. Any conservative view is "closed-minded" My point is that homosexuals are widely accepted. I DONT think that feeling attracted to the same sex is a choice, but I know that acting on those feelings IS a choice. As for the song, I think it's interesting that he tries to feel positive about all this bad stuff, but at the end he realizes that homosexuality, drug addiction, and warmongering are destroying the American Dream. It's a sad song because it's true.
This song is powerful... and sad. What kuomika quoted is exactly what I'm feeling. It's an ominous feeling of an impending global war or something. A breakdown in the liberal vs. conservative tension.
And yes I feel it everywhere. It's like almost everything everyone is feeling nowadays is how to hate everyone else. From homophobia (the increasingly violent), to tea-partyers (the increasingly violent calls to action against 'socialists'), to conservatives (the anti-immigration law, thinly veiled latent racism, the hysterical Obama-blaming centered primarily on his being black), to religion (Fred Phelps, Islamic Terrorism, the slow mutation of Christianity into a religion of pointing fingers), to thought (anti-intellectualism, the growing resentment against scientists for 'taking away tax dollars'), To politics (the 'politics of fear', us against them platforms), to the environment (the apathy on global warming, the oil spill, and the decline of environmentalist mentality).
People's views are getting narrower and narrower, and some are already refusing to accept common humanity as a good enough reason to try and bridge the gaps. No one empathizes anymore. No one sees just how much suffering they are inflicting on other people. No one wants to see the long-term impacts of what they are demanding for.
If you don't know what I mean try reading comments in news stories sometime, the way people laugh at global disasters half the world away, the way people try to find out the race of a criminal and then blame it all on race if he turns out to be not white, the encouragement on shooting illegal border crossers on sight, the holier-than-thou arguments of the bible thumpers calling for the killing of homosexuals as if they were animals, the blanket blaming on terrorism where americans make it worse by provoking the peaceful muslim majority, the comparison of socialism to soviet communism as if they are even the same thing (they're not), the calls for war, greed (the refusal of people to have their tax dollars used in saving lives, the support of big companies for conservatives in exchange for tax breaks, the refusal to take responsibility of the fact that 1% of the population of America owns 35% of the nation's wealth, while the people who actually do the work, the bottom %40 divide 0.2% of the wealth among themselves. And you wonder why the economy collapsed).
History always repeats itself doesn't it? WW2 seems so far away now, 50 years is all it takes to forget the real horrors of war. No one seems to realize what they are asking for. Especially now that the threat of war doesn't anymore mean merely street fighting and tanks and airplanes. No.
If war broke out today it'd be nuclear.
It's scary because sometimes I feel like I'm the only one aware of it. The most powerful line in the song for me is this:
"Stand up and let me get a look at you Can we all take a wider view"
EDIT: From homophobia (the refusal to accept it as not being a choice, the 'selective' reading when it comes to reading the Bible, the glee Christians show when gay people get killed for no reason)
EDIT: From homophobia (the refusal to accept it as not being a choice, the 'selective' reading when it comes to reading the Bible, the glee Christians show when gay people get killed for no reason)
And yeah one thing I forgot to add: the 'break' may still come out positive in the end. But yeah, it will come at a price.
And yeah one thing I forgot to add: the 'break' may still come out positive in the end. But yeah, it will come at a price.
I disagree. I think that as a country everyone is too "open minded". Which bythe way, open minded is just a eupehmism nowadays for liberal thought. Any conservative view is "closed-minded" My point is that homosexuals are widely accepted. I DONT think that feeling attracted to the same sex is a choice, but I know that acting on those feelings IS a choice. As for the song, I think it's interesting that he tries to feel positive about all this bad stuff, but at the end he realizes that homosexuality, drug addiction, and warmongering are destroying the American Dream. It's...
I disagree. I think that as a country everyone is too "open minded". Which bythe way, open minded is just a eupehmism nowadays for liberal thought. Any conservative view is "closed-minded" My point is that homosexuals are widely accepted. I DONT think that feeling attracted to the same sex is a choice, but I know that acting on those feelings IS a choice. As for the song, I think it's interesting that he tries to feel positive about all this bad stuff, but at the end he realizes that homosexuality, drug addiction, and warmongering are destroying the American Dream. It's a sad song because it's true.