Friday, October 24, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Rage is back
Anyone younger than 35 should be able to recall the great success of Rage Against the Machine in the nineties, and also the tremendous impact Rage had on our politics as young people. We couldn't vote, but would could say, "Fuck You I Won't Do What You Tell Me." They made us aware of the imperfect nature of our nation as it stands today. The lyrics of Zach De La Rocha revealed a world once draped and hidden away in history. They exposed the lies and corruption of corporate America, and helped us realized that as people we have the power to band together and oppose injustice.
Now we are all grown up—some with kids and some not—all the while still carrying a small piece of that with us through life. Now we are no longer the punk teens moshing at those concerts; we are now the professionals who run the workforce and the great Americans that have sacrificed so much in Iraq. We are now the poor and the rich, the multi-colored and multi-cultural, the weak and the strong. All thanks to great speakers, poets, and musicians like Rage Against the Machine. We have less of an excuse to be as apathetic as previous generations. While artists of the past have drawn idealistic pictures of a better world using poetic and artistic images, the new generation of blunt and direct artists and musicians has a bit more of an edge, and, dare I say, a better chance at defeating the slimy and greedy hypnosis over America. This givies us a better chance of realizing our greater role as innovators.
