GSH was brilliant. Note that this was written in 1970. He truly saw where the world was heading. His words become more relevant every day.
I think the image of America/Britain as mother/daughter prostitutes suggests that we've all been trained to whore ourselves out for money. There's an overwhelming sense of consumerist guilt in Kanye's more recent stuff. The video below makes a good argument for how this liberal-democratic ideology ended up getting adopted by and assimilated into capitalism, which is I think one thing that GSH seemed to be afraid of in the original 'comment #1'
youtube.com/watch
I think Kanye wants us all to take a step back and really think about our lives. Are we anything more than the sum of our achievements? Why does no one talk about "the soul" anymore?
I don't necessarily think we should jump on the Illuminati/New World Order bandwagon, or become born-again Christians. But we DO need to worship something. And right now we're worshipping things like money, success, sex, drugs, etc. Is this kind of worshipping really making us happier?
rapgenius.com/Gil-scott-heron-comment-1-lyrics (great breakdown of the lyrics)
GSH was brilliant. Note that this was written in 1970. He truly saw where the world was heading. His words become more relevant every day.
I think the image of America/Britain as mother/daughter prostitutes suggests that we've all been trained to whore ourselves out for money. There's an overwhelming sense of consumerist guilt in Kanye's more recent stuff. The video below makes a good argument for how this liberal-democratic ideology ended up getting adopted by and assimilated into capitalism, which is I think one thing that GSH seemed to be afraid of in the original 'comment #1' youtube.com/watch
Also, did anyone actually look up the word "soul" in the dictionary after hearing this? (merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soul)
I think Kanye wants us all to take a step back and really think about our lives. Are we anything more than the sum of our achievements? Why does no one talk about "the soul" anymore?
I don't necessarily think we should jump on the Illuminati/New World Order bandwagon, or become born-again Christians. But we DO need to worship something. And right now we're worshipping things like money, success, sex, drugs, etc. Is this kind of worshipping really making us happier?