Maybe it is just me (non iTunes user or whatever they are doing these days), but I cannot see where the music is in all of the current rebellion of our young. Here are two classics from the past as an example of what artists used to do; that are perhaps about unjust policies facing those who were working in the mining industry.
From the US perspective:
From an Australian perspective (great song btw):
What's the text flashing in the "Blue Sky Mine" video? I can barely make out that it's words, let alone read it before it disappears. I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to be subliminal, but for my slow visual cortex it's definitely subliminal. So what messages did I just absorb? Am I going to get the irresistible urge to fight corporate greed?
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ReplyDeleterage against the machines "evil empire" and "the battle of los angeles" its not new but timeless
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ReplyDeleteI interpret the Midnight Oil song to be about asbestosis as a result of working in the mining industry.
And then the artists aim their rage at the "corporation" that employed the workers who later on developed the unforseen long term ill health effects of exposure to asbestos and could not get the corporation to provide long term care coverage to them as compensation for their illness that was contracted as a direct result of their employment by said corporation.
Perhaps the corporation never planned for such a financial contingency, and hence didnt have the balances available to them to pay for the care and to clean up the mining towns that remained contaminated.
This is a textbook example where the govt sector can step in and provide balances to the injured parties to enable them to obtain the necessary care and to fund environmental remediation (if possible).
But the morons in the government have surrendered their fiscal authority so they dont see this as an option. These morons believe they are "out of money", then follows the rage between the parties directly involved.
It's a story that plays out over and over again.
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You want contemporary protest music?
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