Remember to Rage Against The Machine!
Remember to Rage Against The Machine!
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Why are all of their songs still relevant 30 years later?
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Because those that work forces are still the ones that burn crosses
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Because the problems they raged about are systemic, and the system didn't change.
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It did change, though. It got significantly worse.
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Because humans are fucking stupid and history always repeats itself.
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All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
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So say we all.
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Until conservatives and authoritarians stop getting their way.
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Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
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A few weak men are indeed making very hard times
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The problems are systemic and the humans in the system are incentivized to perpetuate the system.
Its not stupidity.
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Humans or Americans?
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Because nobody actually listened to and took seriously what they were saying 30 years ago.
Fun fact: After 9/11, various songs evoking 9/11, such as 'Learning to Fly' by Tom Petty, 'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin, 'It's the End of the World as we Know it' by REM ... all banned from airing for about 120 days.
Oh.
And literally everything from Rage Against the Machine.
Other fun fact about this?
This censorship wasn't done by the FCC.
It was done by ClearChannel, aka iHeartRadio, aka, the corporation that now owns or controls basically all terrestrial radio stations.
https://www.kerrang.com/here-are-the-164-songs-that-were-banned-from-american-radio-after-9-11
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The same reason socialist theory is still relevant 150+ years after it started
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Good example:
Renegades Of Funk
https://tidal.com/browse/track/23682737?u-
That one's a cover actually! It's even older :P
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The original is very different than that RATM version (as expected), but very good as well.
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I didn't know they were so WoKe!!
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