This is a song about the blindness of Western Privilege in a world where our foreign and economic policy (said machine) crushes and bombs the other world. And those of us paying for it are oblivious to its effects. We pat ourselves on the back for not having the empire anymore. Even when we try to look at the truth we reject the evidence presented. This is just as relevant today as it was in 1987.
The most important lines in the song are "We got the kingdom, we got the key, we got the empire now as then, we don't doubt, we don't take direction/reflection." That lack of doubt in our rightness from our position of privilege is what stops us seeing.
The train reference is one used often to refer to the supposed benefits brought by the British Empire especially with regard to India. And that was point of the video.
Lucretia is almost certainly the Roman one who brought down the Roman Monarchy with her rape and subsequent suicide.
This is a song about the blindness of Western Privilege in a world where our foreign and economic policy (said machine) crushes and bombs the other world. And those of us paying for it are oblivious to its effects. We pat ourselves on the back for not having the empire anymore. Even when we try to look at the truth we reject the evidence presented. This is just as relevant today as it was in 1987.
The most important lines in the song are "We got the kingdom, we got the key, we got the empire now as then, we don't doubt, we don't take direction/reflection." That lack of doubt in our rightness from our position of privilege is what stops us seeing.
The train reference is one used often to refer to the supposed benefits brought by the British Empire especially with regard to India. And that was point of the video.
Lucretia is almost certainly the Roman one who brought down the Roman Monarchy with her rape and subsequent suicide.