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Stucky

Why don’t Millennials produce anti-war songs?

Sensetti
Sensetti

Stuck I was in a pub last night with a bunch of Minnie’s and all that was playing was music from the 70’s and 80’s. They love it. I guess maybe they were raised on it

bb

Sensetti , are telling us you were looking at little girls with bad intent ?While snot was running down your nose ?

overthecliff

MMany think I am a war monger but I`m not. Each killed or maimed kid is an abomination. The casualties in recent wars have been very light as wars go. Viet Nam it was about 200 dead kids per week. That brought the war home . I hope the millie don`t experience that. I pray that my grandson is not one of them.

War is a fact of life and sometimes facts suck.

Tommy
Tommy

Millennials love all music, even their parents gen. too.

bb

Over the cliff , I still remember watching the body count every night on TV.My father was fighting somewhere where in Vietnam .I would watch and wonder if he was still alive.He survived the war.Came home and did real well in business .I will never forget that body count.

pietropaulo
pietropaulo

overthecliff,

Your attitude to it makes war a fact of life.

You refer to 200 dead AMERICAN kids. All those other kids, you know, the Vietnamese kids, babies, women, men, farmers, shopkeepers, they don’t count, it seems, in your eyes. After all, they’re just slant eyed Gooks, right?

The casualties in recent wars,, again, you mean AMERICAN casualties.

No one else matters.

See what I mean? Attitude.

pietropaulo
pietropaulo

Stucky,

Because like the news, the music industry is under the firm control of the military, industrial complex. This is why kids today are finding resonance with decades old music. This is why more and more people are getting their news and information off the Net.

Axel
Axel

Not so much anti war songs, but artists these days are producing songs of rebellion, songs against the Deep State and it’s cronies. Artists like that are typically highlighted here on TBP–such as Muse, and Green Day

Stucky

“Not so much anti war songs, but artists these days are producing songs of rebellion, songs against the Deep State and it’s cronies” ———– Axel

Yeah. But, it’s the same as “back then”. It’s easier and comes at no cost.

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“The proliferation of anti-authoritarian ideas in popular culture was far more apparent in the 1960s and 1970s: the golden age of the protest song and grassroots activism, whose partnership was as harmonious as the mellow, lyrical vocals with which they became associated. No sane leftist would scoff at Bob Dylan’s role in the anti-war movement; we shouldn’t assume that current cultural influences with anarchic or revolutionary leanings can’t shape the political zeitgeist just as well.

But there is a notable difference between the trend of the ’70s and that which has gripped today’s popular culture. Whereas there was realism and grit to be found in Dylan’s songs, and the albums, books and films of his contemporaries, today’s portrayal of rebellion is facile, lazy and inane. There is clear definition of the morality behind every action, with no question that ‘the people’ are wholly behind the movement in question. It’s easy. It’s clean. No long-term damage is done.

In The Hunger Games, a girl and a boy fall in love against a backdrop of dystopia. The suffering involved is linked to that dystopia; the decision to rebel is an easy one, and the actual process of rebellion is predominantly of a plot device to throw these two characters together, rather than a complex dilemma in itself.

Similarly, gone from our screens is the portrayal of Leon Trotsky as a complex theoretician with a dubious position in history (‘The Assassination of Trotsky’, 1972); say hello to a wisecracking teenager, disconnected from theory and history, who serves as a metaphor for changes in the emphasis of pop culture over the last forty years.

Today, we get everything so easily and quickly; information comes at a flash to our increasingly demanding fingertips, and we live in unprecedented cleanliness and safety, surrounded by a friendly bubble of regulations and medicines. If it’s not fast, sanitary and entertaining, we don’t want to hear of it ……………. and the same goes for revolution.

When placed alongside the downward trend of young people’s engagement with activism — in 2011, a third of professors at Brown University said they’d witnessed a marked reduction in student protest during their time — the above signifies a worrying development. A development indicating that the new generation will watch an optimistic, morally simplistic Hollywood blockbuster on the subject of revolution, but will not partake in a serious rebellious action themselves.

No wonder, then, that the only revolutionary calls to arms in recent years have either been so insignificant they never graced the mainstream media’s radar or toe-curlingly facetious.

Rest of article here ——–> http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Revolution-Became-Cush-by-Lily-Chamberlain-Activism_Attitude_Books_Comedy-140730-319.html

Stucky

shit

I meant … NOT the same as back then

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