static from wasi'chu by wasi'chu
Tracklist
| 6. | static | 2:24 |
Lyrics
“This is a demonstration against terrorism – American terrorism. The Americans arrest and kill women and children. They insult the elderly and kill young men. America is terrorism. Terrorism is America.”
our eyes glued to the screen.
we're told this is the price we pay
for freedom.
who's to blame?
peace of mind
at the cost of reality.
allusions to evil
aren't what they used to be.
truth lost in
the white noise.
this silence
is deafening.
“The immediate problem is to free ourselves from the shackles imposed very consciously by the kind of people you're talking about; who don't want the fact to be known, and for very good reasons, because if people know the facts they're not going to tolerate them. So therefore you have to prevent them from knowing. You have to indoctrinate them. You have to tell them stories about how we're really 'good guys' and if we use violence it must be for the general good because we represent the course of history. Yeah, that's the job of propagandists for power and violence. And it's the task of populations to free themselves from those kinds of controls and domination.”
Credits
soundclips from:
- "Shock Doctrine" (2009) by Naomi Klein
- Noam Chomsky interview with Evan Solomon (2002, CBC)
