So…. how did i get into social and political issues. Well i guess having a socialist for a father was one thing. Secondly my own thought processes. Thirdly Heavy Metal…..
Metal was not just a scene of spotty teenager males that couldn’t get girlfriends.. Indeed it was the vanguard of critique of all that is existing. This shall be my first post proving this case, about how radicalism and heavy metal are entwined.
Nuclear Assault in this song ‘Brainwashed’ tackle thought control of the mass media. Apt for these fox news times. I like how they link media to perpetuating our consumer capitalist society..
Brainwashed by Nuclear Assault
Radio, an insidious form, helps shape your thoughts making you conform
Programming music easy listening, help you achieve that moronic grip
Playing you regurgitated pap, selling products that are mostly crap
Rarely hearing music you want to hear, it bas an effect over all these years
Why don’t you think for yourself
Live in this self made Hell
Television, the idiot tube, helps to raise our children as fools
Watch the news see what they want you to see, our awareness is limited by network
Moronic sit-coms and one-sided news alter your feeling give you conformist views
Why can’t you get that garbage out of your Head, you’d better off to read a good book instead
Newspapers, what do they say, Not much I think when they want school kids to pray
Getting the facts from some daily news, you hate the system but adhere to it’s view
Blaming the dead because they can’t complain, shielding officials holding them above
You’d better wake up and see what’s plain to see, or end up a willing part of the machine
