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Living in a time where life is threatened at every moment Where we have a doomsday clock Telling us when all existence will end The Climate Emergency Nuclear Proliferation A great pandemic No wonder we have so many people on drugs Self-medicating The neo-liberal model of economics has left us no alternative It is an economy based on a loss of meaning A loss of meaning for our culture Here in the United States Here in the United States And around the world We have been alienated from nature We have been alienated from others We have been alienated from our work And worst of all We have been alienated from ourselves This way of being The consumer way of being Holds no real purpose Why do you think we have mass shootings This general feeling of nihilism has its consequences The young see it They feel it coming What is happening now Only proves their convictions to life So what the **** do we do I say We fight like hell We fight by not giving in By seeing that neighbor as a friend Not an enemy You see those people suffering on the tv screen Not as those people But our people **** the rich Until we The working class The middle class The poor and forgotten class Share one unifying idea We are forever doomed If we don’t wake up and realize the waters been heated up And it’s getting ready to boil Many more people will suffer while all the gazillionaires Holed up in their cozy little bunkers Watch all of us perish Like smoke in the wind Snuggled up to their television screen
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Apr 1, 2020
Apr 1, 2020 at 2:33 PM UTC
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Living in a time where life is threatened at every moment Where we have a doomsday clock Telling us when all existence will end The Climate Emergency Nuclear Proliferation A great pandemic No wonder we have so many people on drugs Self-medicating The neo-liberal model of economics has left us no alternative It is an economy based on a loss of meaning A loss of meaning for our culture Here in the United States Here in the United States And around the world We have been alienated from nature We have been alienated from others We have been alienated from our work And worst of all We have been alienated from ourselves This way of being The consumer way of being Holds no real purpose Why do you think we have mass shootings This general feeling of nihilism has its consequences The young see it They feel it coming What is happening now Only proves their convictions to life So what the **** do we do I say We fight like hell We fight by not giving in By seeing that neighbor as a friend Not an enemy You see those people suffering on the tv screen Not as those people But our people **** the rich Until we The working class The middle class The poor and forgotten class Share one unifying idea We are forever doomed If we don’t wake up and realize the waters been heated up And it’s getting ready to boil Many more people will suffer while all the gazillionaires Holed up in their cozy little bunkers Watch all of us perish Like smoke in the wind Snuggled up to their television screen
#political
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JackBronson
40/M/California
Apr 1, 2020
Apr 1, 2020 at 2:33 PM UTC
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