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Abstinence - Mindgames
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Emotional torment
Burning - burning
Through the walls of an already shattered mind
Engage
Break away from the bondage
Mutilating all sense of reason
Forced fed to cor-relate
The doctrinated immobilized
Eradicate - bleeding, bleeding
Social blinders
Mystified if fallacy they require
The humiliation
Of drowning by constriction
Eradicate - bleeding, bleeding
Memory
Denying all access
Bar code identity
Social Security card without the markings
Eradicate - bleeding, bleeding
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America
The disambiguation of a nation, a land, a people or a government institution?
If we don't define America, how can we say we are for or against it in a meaningful way?
Is America a land?
If so, what land is meant?
The hemisphere, country or the continent?
Is America a people?
If so which ones are meant?
Civilians, citizens, the military or the government?
When some say America, they mean bigots, while others speak of those who's residence pre-dates their ignorance.
Ambiguity is the tool of propaganda.
If you don't support the invasion, you don't support America.
And if you're anti-American, that means you're against the people, who may have friends and family being killed by the American military.
You see the circular logical fallacy, all created by ambiguity with magnetic ribbons and stickers.
Mindless messages of the meaningless
"America Number One"
"Freedom isn't Free"
"Support our troops"
"Love it or leave it"
All made in a sweat shop somewhere else (repeat x 4)
"the point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything. They mean as much as whether you support the people in Iowa." -Chomsky
America
The disambiguation of a nation, a land, a people or a government institution?
If we don't define America, how can we say we are for or against it in a meaningful way?
Bush told America,
"they hate us for our freedom"
to justify Iraqi resource acquisition,
because freedom isn't free,
but then, tell me how 'we' pay?
Military interventions or fighting for equality?
But when I say 'we' that's because of this lie that America means 'we' as much as drone death from the sky.
Word play and mind games
Orwellian Newspeek
The language is controlled by ambiguous meanings
After all, who is more similar to the powers that be?
Civilians or those that control the purse strings?
Freedom may not be free but it's
cheaper than private prisons,
cheaper than nuclear weapons
cheaper than poor decisions
fed by mainstream news, selling views to the tunes of advertising dollars, and billionaire programming rules
If America is the land of the free, why do we have more incarcerated than anywhere in history?
"it's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words" x2
America
The disambiguation of a nation, a land, a people or a government institution?
If we don't define America, how can we say we are for or against it in a meaningful way?
"the point of public relations slogans like support our troops is that they don’t mean anything, they mean as much as whether you support the people in Iowa."
"Of course there was an Issue — the issue was do you support our policy but you don’t want people to think about the issue that’s the whole point of good propaganda, you want to create a slogan that nobody is gonna be against and I suppose everybody will be for because nobody knows what it means because it doesn’t mean anything, but it’s crucial value is it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something. Do you support our policy and that’s the one you’re not allowed to talk about."
-Chomsky
All made in a sweat shop somewhere else (x4)
America
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NOTE: these lyrics have numbered notes below that reference sources of information and inspiration.
Keep them out for the clothes they wear
Keep them out for their piercings and tattoos
Keep them out for who they love
Keep them out if they are not like you
Keep Them Out (x8)
Keep them out for any excuse,
to divide an us from them.
The struggles may be different,
but the thought process remains the same.
It's always...
(chorus x2)
Xenophobia. The roots of bigotry. [1]
Separate the outsiders.
No room for empathy
Defend the border.
Build a wall.
They send their worst.
You don't belong. [2]
Brown eyes bad
Blue eyes good [3]
No matter how much we learn
I see the same excuse
Protect freaks from the norms. [4]
Protect our women from eye rape. [5]
Protect our children from immigrants.
The thought process is all the same.
Keep them out for any excuse,
to divide an us from them.
The struggles may be different,
but the thought process remains the same.
It's always
(chorus x2)
A thin blue line to defend
the wealthy from the black skin. [6]
The door man checks your fashion,
to protect the fashion victims. [7]
Another clique. It makes me sick.
The roots of all this ignorance.
Can you bomb a person
without dehumanization [8]
by
(chorus x2)
Xenophobia (x4)
[notes]
[1] Although the history of every group's struggles against racism,
sexism, genocide, homophobia, and mistreatment for their religion,
nationality, or any number of other reasons all have their unique
stories, losses, and body counts, the root of all of the above is a
common theme of thought process in people. Xenophobia is the fear of
the other. That other could be other because of race, religion,
sexual preference, gender, nationality, language, or even something as
superficial as the way people dress, or if they have tattoos, or some
other superficial trait that is otherwise irrelevant. This song is an attempt to address this root issue of general prejudice, and tie it together in a way that hopefully both calls out great abuses but also makes us more
aware of the similarities in more socially accepted forms of
dehumanization and segregation that are far more common in our
society.
[2] This refers directly to statements made frequently by Donald Trump and his supporters among others. It was written early in his campaign and has only been proven to be more relevant as the Trump administration has pushed destructive rhetoric and policies.
[3] a nod to Jane Elliott's Blue Eyes Brown Eyes exercise on racism.
see also https://vimeo.com/153858146
[4]+[7] Common themes in various subcultures.
[5] "eye rape" was a Jim Crow charge that could get black men jailed
or executed for simply looking at a white woman, and was used as a
justification in lynchings including that of Emmett Till.
[6] The 'thin blue line' is a symbol that is used to represent police
heroically separating the good guys from the bag guys. A retired
police officer, however, described his former job as separating the rich and the poor. In years full of police killings and beatings caught on camera of mostly unarmed black men, the thin blue line suggests to me a different type of segregation of society by police. The FBI itself has a history of racism which includes their COINTEL PRO program which targeted black leaders including Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and members of the original Black Panther Party. Perhaps it is a good sign for the FBI that in 2006 they detailed the threat of white supremacists infiltrating police in order to recruit more white supremacists into their ranks and disrupt investigations against fellow white supremacists. Numerous police including high ranking officers have been outed as members of the KKK by among other the FBI.
See also:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-RxvgIMfX4
https://vimeo.com/15930463
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-racist-legacy-of-the-lapd/
[8] Military campaigns have historically used propaganda that
encourages and uses xenophobia against the enemy, to dehumanize
whoever the war is fought against. Examples are plentiful and include
World War II usage of racist caricatures of Asian people that are
comparable to the racist caricatures done by the Nazis of African and
Jewish people. Sadly, modern Islamophobia has been fanned in similar
ways by some today as just one more example.
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