“Merican” by The Descendents
We flipped our finger to the king of England
Stole our country from the indians
With God on our side and guns in our hands
We took it for our own
A nation dedicated to liberty
Justice and equality
Does it look that way to you?
It doesn't look that way to me
The sickest joke I know
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid american
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home
I come from the land of Ben Franklin
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman
Otis Redding, Ellington,
The country that I love
But it's a land of the slaves and the ku klux klan
Haymarket riot and the great depression
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam
The sickest joke I know
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid american
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home
I'm proud and ashamed
Every fourth of july
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride
Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns
Shrinks pushin' pills on everyone
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun
Straight to Hell we go
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid american
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid american
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home
Finish up your drink and go home
“The Greatest Betrayal” by Much The Same
I've never been that strong
Never been the one to charge head on
I'm afraid to let this in
I have to try before the light goes dim
We pledge ourselves to all of this
A broken promise, just a lie, a target I can't hit
And is being strong depending on our blind faith
Or is being gullible making us weak?
Now I'm scared, and I'm using you
Hoping you will somehow pull me through
It's only when all is lost
I need your help and I'll pay any cost
Will I take all this back?
Take all this back
We pledge ourselves to all of this
A broken promise, just a lie, a target I can't hit
And is being strong depending on our blind faith
Or is being gullible making us weak?
Don't place on me this crown of thorns
I'm happy now, no need to be reformed
Please don't trust a single word I say
Because you know I will surely betray
You know I will betray
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We pledge ourselves to all of this
A broken promise, just a lie, a target I can't hit
And is being strong depending on our blind faith
Or is being gullible making us weak?
“Breaking Free from the Cultural Neurosis” by Dr. Alexander Lowen
We want to be more alive and feel more, but we are afraid of it.
Our fear of life is seen in the way we keep busy so as not to feel, keep running so as not to face ourselves, or get high on liquor or drugs so as not to sense our being. Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it. We believe that it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions.
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the “action generation,” whose motto is “do more but feel less.” This attitude characterizes much of modern sexuality: more action but less passion.
If we can face our inner emptiness, we will find fulfillment.
Is it the fate of modern man to be neurotic, to be afraid of life? My answer is yes, if we define modern man as a member of a culture whose dominant values are power and progress.
The neurotic individual is in conflict with himself. Part of his being is trying to overcome another part. His ego is trying to master his body; his rational mind, to control his feelings; his will, to overcome his fears and anxieties.
Neurosis is internal conflict. The neurotic character takes many forms, but all of them involve a struggle in the individual between what he is and what he believes he should be. Every neurotic individual is caught in this struggle…
When guilt or shame are attached to feelings, the conflict is internalized and creates a neurotic character.
According to Freud, the neurotic character represents an inability to adapt to the cultural situation. He recognized that civilization denies the individual full instinctual gratification, but he believed that this denial was necessary for cultural progress. In effect he accepted the idea that it was the fate of modern man to be unhappy.
The cultural process that gave rise to modern society and modern man was the development of the ego. This development is associated with the acquisition of knowledge and the gaining of power over nature.
Man is part of nature like any other animal, fully subject to her laws; but he is also above nature, acting upon and controlling her. He does the same with his own nature; part of his personality, the ego, turns against the animal part, the body. The antithesis between ego and body produces a dynamic tension that furthers the growth of culture, but it also contains a destructive potential.
Given his culture and the character it produces, what is the fate of modern man?
If the story of Oedipus can serve as a prophecy, it is a prophecy of achieving the success and power one seeks only to find one's world coming apart or breaking down.
If success is measured by material possessions, as it is in the industrialized countries, and power by the ability to do and go (machines and energy), most people in the Western world have both success and power. The collapse of their world is the impoverishment of their inner or emotional lives.
Having committed themselves to success and power, they have little else to live for. And like Oedipus they have become wanderers on the earth, uprooted beings who can find no peace anywhere.
The challenge to modern man is to reconcile the antithetical aspects in his personality. On the body level he is an animal, on the ego level a would-be god. The fate of the animal is death, which the ego in its godlike aspirations is trying to avoid. But in trying to avoid this fate man creates an even worse one, namely, to live in fear of life.
When one stops struggling against fate, one loses his neurosis (internal conflict) and gains peace of mind. The result is a different attitude (no fear of life), expressed in a different character and associated with a different fate.
Failure seems to mean submission to an acceptable fate, but actually it amounts to self-acceptance, which makes change possible. To the degree that most people in Western culture are struggling to be different, they are neurotic. And since this is a fight one can't win, all who engage in this struggle will fail. Strangely, through the acceptance of failure, we become free from our neurosis.
The following was an excerpt from Dr. Alexander Lowen’s must-read book — Fear of Life: The Wisdom of Failure.
“Beasts Bounding Through Time” by Charles Bukowski
Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief
Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town
the impossibility of being human
Burroughs killing his wife with a gun
Mailer stabbing his
the impossibility of being human
Maupassant going mad in a rowboat
Dostoyevsky lined up against a wall to be shot
Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller
the impossibility
Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato
Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun
Lorca murdered in the road by Spanish troops
the impossibility
Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench
Chatterton drinking rat poison
Shakespeare a plagiarist
Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness
the impossibility the impossibility
Nietzsche gone totally mad
the impossibility of being human
all too human
this breathing
in and out
out and in
these punks
these cowards
these champions
these mad dogs of glory
moving this little bit of light toward us
impossibly.“Will to Live” by Arthur Schopenhauer
It is really incredible how meaningless and insignificant when seen from without, and how dull and senseless when felt from within, is the course of life of the great majority of men.
It is weary longing and worrying, a dreamlike staggering through the four ages of life to death, accompanied by a series of trivial thoughts.
They are like clockwork that is wound up and goes without knowing why. Every time a man is begotten and born the clock of human life is wound up anew, to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
Every individual, every human apparition and its course of life, is only one more short dream of the endless spirit of nature, of the persistent will-to-live, is only one more fleeting form, playfully sketched by it on its infinite page, space and time; it is allowed to exist for a short while that is infinitesimal compared with these, and is then effaced, to make new room.
Yet, and here is to be found the serious side of life, each of these fleeting forms, these empty fancies, must be paid for by the whole will-to-live in all its intensity with many deep sorrows, and finally with a bitter death, long feared and finally made manifest.
It is for this reason that the sight of a corpse suddenly makes us serious.
“Bonfire of the Constitution” by False Alliance
On June the 3rd 1994, the power was granted but what was it for? Education, health and communications. Personal freedom!
Now FEMA stands tall and some cant see, the true nature of buerocracy - JFK proceeds from '62. Victory! - Since 1994, Clinton opened the doors. To exaggerate disaster. "Every superpower controls it's primary enemy (it's own population), by terrifying it with the quite real crimes of another."
American culture began to fall when colored people started to populate. The CIA drug war is cracking down. Discriminate! This order holds power thats hard to see, our nation is awake and listening. Who really has the final word? Non-elected!
“Brainwashed” by Tom Macdonald
Half the country fell asleep but they scream woke
We're distracted by vaccines and TV shows
Politics, celebrity, gossip, popular neat quotes
Black lives, white lives, which lives mean most?
We only dedicate one day to remember our fallen soldiers
The men and women who died young
But if you come out the closet as Caitlyn Jenner
You're a hero and you get a whole pride month
The most dangerous pandemic's propaganda from these clowns
Only mask that's gonna save us is duct tape on they mouths
Don't speak, we don't need to defund police
Need to defund the media who lies through they teeth, like
Big pharma doesn't cure you, dog
'Cause every patient that gets cured is a customer lost
And big oil runs the world, the only wars that get fought
Are with the countries who have natural resources they want
Heard 'em claiming if a white man braids his hair
And likes rap, he's appropriating culture
But if a white man acts too white he's white trash
He's a racist, he's a bigot, he's a monster
Let's just have the conversation
Not every liberal is dumb, not all Republicans are racist
The government wants everybody fighting with their neighbors
'Cause they know that if we get along, we'll probably go against 'em
They can't stop us 'cause we're ready to fight
Try to brainwash us but we won't let freedom die
The whole world's brainwashed
Everybody pick a team, start a riot in the streets
The whole world's brainwashed
It's us against them, it ain't you against me
How did monkeys become people and people turned into sheep?
They put fluoride in the water that's keeping us all asleep
Claim they want what's best for us, I find that hard to believe
'Cause they been selling us cigarettes since we was eighteen
Fake news, fake woke, distract, and divide
You're either right or you're left or you're black or you're white
Big tech don't need a microchip to hack in your life
'Cause the phone inside your pocket is a tracking device
And I don't know what I'm more sick of, rappers or Joe Biden
Looking like he ate a hundred Xanax for dinner
'Cause censoring the president and kicking him off Twitter
Is a bigger threat to freedom than foreign ballistic missiles
You don't trust the police or the government but you want
People giving up their right to own a firearm
Why would you be comfortable if police and the government
The only people on the planet with the right to buy a gun
White privilege getting amplified to reinforce division
It convinces white people that they're favored by their skin
And black people getting angry 'cause they're told they're treated different
So the conflict is between us and never with the system
Let's just have the conversation
Not every liberal is dumb, not all Republicans are racist
The government wants everybody fighting with their neighbors
'Cause they know that if we get along, we'll probably go against 'em
They can't stop us 'cause we're ready to fight
Try to brainwash us but we won't let freedom die
The whole world's brainwashed
Everybody pick a team, start a riot in the streets
The whole world's brainwashed
It's us against them, it ain't you against me
Step one, train the people only to consume
Step two, infiltrate adults with the news
Step three, indoctrinate the children through the schools
And the music and the apps on the phones that they use
Step four, separate the right from the left
Step five, separate the white from the black
Step six, separate the rich from the poor
Use religion and equality to separate 'em more
Step seven, fabricate a problem made of lies
Step eight, put it on the news every night
Step nine, when people start to fight and divide
Take control, this is called situational design
They can't stop us 'cause we're ready to fight
Try to brainwash us but we won't let freedom die
The whole world's brainwashed
Everybody pick a team, start a riot in the streets
The whole world's brainwashed
It's us against them, it ain't you against me
“Smash It Up” by The Damned
We've been crying now for much too long
And now we're gonna dance to a different song
I'm gonna scream and shout til my dying breath
I'm gonna smash it up til there's nothing left
Oh oh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Oh oh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
People call me villain oh its such a shame
Maybe its my clothes must be to blame
I don't even care if I look a mess
Don't want to be a sucker like all the rest
Oh oh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Oh oh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up, you can keep your Krishna burgers
Smash it up, and your Glastonbury hippies
Smash it up, you can stick your frothy lager
Smash it up, and your blow wave hairstyles
And everybody's smashing things down
I said everybody's smashing things down yeah
Rudolph Steiner quote
More than a hundred years ago, Rudolf Steiner wrote the following:
”In the future, we will eliminate the soul with medicine. Under the pretext of a ‘healthy point of view’, there will be a vaccine by which the human body will be treated as soon as possible directly at birth, so that the human being cannot develop the thought of the existence of soul and Spirit.
To materialistic doctors, will be entrusted the task of removing the soul of humanity. As today, people are vaccinated against this disease or that disease, so in the future, children will be vaccinated with a substance that can be produced precisely in such a way that people, thanks to this vaccination, will be immune to being subjected to the “madness” of spiritual life.
He would be extremely smart, but he would not develop a conscience, and that is the true goal of some materialistic circles. With such a vaccine, you can easily make the etheric body loose in the physical body.
Once the etheric body is detached, the relationship between the universe and the etheric body would become extremely unstable, and man would become an automaton, for the physical body of man must be polished on this Earth by spiritual will.
So, the vaccine becomes a kind of arymanique force; man can no longer get rid of a given materialistic feeling. He becomes materialistic of constitution and can no longer rise to the spiritual.” - Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)🔻
“I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” by The Ramones
When I'm lying in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothing ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever want to be that way
I don't wanna grow up
Seems that folks turn into things that they'd never want
The only thing to live for is today
I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up
Well, when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothing out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old tomb on Grand Street
When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float on a broom
Fall in love, get married then boom
How the hell did it get here so soon
No, I don't want to grow up
“Born Free” by The Bouncing Souls
Fear is in the air thats the way they want it to be
"Don't trust friends or neighbors everyone's your enemy!"
Kidnapped children on tv fear runs through the family
They'll put a chip in your arm.
Keeping track of where you are.
with all of this technology have we come so far?
It's easy to get lost, forget who you are
Don't forget that your born free
It's better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees
People are so greedy, it's almost funny
How many ways can they ruin lives for money?
I see the choice to enjoy the truth in life
In the middle of all this deceit and strife
A nation's future stands in doubt
Peace and love are on the way out
Why can't they just let me be?
How I live is up to me
Don't forget that your born free
It's better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees
We get the message loud and clear
we refuse to live in fear!
“No Way Out But Through” by Face to Face
You've never been much for the truth
Unless it's something that you wanna use
You waste so much time accepting the lies
I'm not much different than you
We lie to ourselves and we try to make do
Make up your mind and take up a side
There's no way out but there is a way through
You're building your case with no proof
And filling your head to the rim with a ruse
You waste so much time accepting the lies
A bomb you've got to try and defuse
The longer you wait and the shorter the fuse
Make up your mind and take up a side
There's no way out but there is a way through
You've got nowhere else to go
There's no way out but there is a way through
And you can't blame the world for your misfortune
So, get up and dust yourself off, set yourself right
There's no way out but there is a way through
You've got nowhere else to go
There's no way out but there is a way through
“Mission Statement” by Strung Out
I believe you earn your soul
Gotta feel the pain and grow
Our best intentions blowin' in the wind
I got trouble on my mind
You've got a little on your mind
We both ain't runnin' but we don't belong
I still believe in the changes
I still believe in the sound
Of all voices screaming out
We are forever bound (forever bound)
I still believe in all that we can do
When the valley gets too dark
We'll lead each other to the mark cause
I still believe
I heard a word: Sincerity
You've got yours then sing with me
We are the change that we've been screamin' for
Who's gonna help us now
Who's gonna show us how
We got our story now
Lets write our song
I still believe we can make this
There's something bigger than what breaks us
All voices screaming now
So now don't let me down
Forever bound
I still believe in the song of the underdog
In the bottom of the heart along the railroad tracks
I still believe
I got the world on my mind
Do I have you by my side?
There's more to this than meets the eye
There's more to life then we can buy
Forever bound
I still believe in all that we can do
When the valley gets too dark
We'll lead each other to the mark cause
I still believe
That we still got a chance
Along this lonely road
We're never who we say we are
I heard the word
I feel the change
And I see something in the way
“Taking Liberties” by Fear The Lions
We fight, We die, We’re buried alive
We fight, We die, We’re buried alive
We fight, We die, We’re buried alive
We fight, We die
Can you see all the casualties?
The division of hope, for the sake of envy
The worlds dying from compassionless greed
Take a moment to breathe, and see we’re family
We’re falling faster than our hope can withstand
Take a second to reach out and grab my hand
Was it worth all you had and you lost?
So many times, in the end you never counted the cost
I won’t be okay with this
I’m not okay
I’m not okay with this, oh no
And where you go, where do you go?
When you’re all by yourself and you have no one else
Where do you go?
And where you go, where do you go?
When you’re calling my name cause I’m feeling the same
Where do you go?
How many times am I hung out to dry?
When you won’t say my name
No, you can’t say my name
When will this be something more than a joke?
When you keep playing games
Yeah, you keep playing games
You only care when you got all you can
No concern for another, or for each other
Was it worth all you had and you lost?
So many times, in the end you never counted the cost
I won’t be okay with this
I’m not okay
I’m not okay with this, oh no
And where you go, where do you go?
When you’re all by yourself and you have no one else
Where do you go?
And where you go, where do you go?
When you’re calling my name cause I’m feeling the same
Where do you go?
And where you go, where do you go?
When you’re all by yourself and you have no one else
Where do you go?
And where you go, where do you go?
When you’re calling my name cause I’m feeling the same
Where do you go?
“Should I Stay Or Should I Go” by The Clash
Darlin' you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine
I'll be here 'til the end of time
So you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
It's always tease tease tease
You're happy when I'm on my knees
One day is fine and next is black
So if you want me off your back
Well come on an' let me know
Should I Stay or should I go?
Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
An' if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know
This indecision's buggin' me (Indecisión me molesta)
If you don't want me, set me free (Si no me quieres, librame)
Exactly who am I supposed to be (Dime! ¿Qué tengo ser?)
Don't you know which clothes even fit me? (¿Sabes que ropa me queda?)
Come on and let me know (Pero me tienes que decir)
Should I cool it or should I blow? (¿Me debo ir o quedarme?)
Split
(Doble!)
(¿Me frío o lo soplo?)
(Es verdad)
(Rrattarrattarrattaa...)
(No)
Should I stay or should I go now? (¿Yo me frío o lo soplo?)
Should I stay or should I go now? (¿Yo me frío o lo soplo?)
If I go there will be trouble (Si me voy, va a haber peligro)
And if I stay it will be double (Si me quedo, es doble)
So you gotta let me know (Pero me tienes que decir)
Should I cool it or should I blow? (¿Me frío o lo soplo?)
Should I stay or should I go now? (¿Me frío o lo soplo?)
If I go there will be trouble (Si me voy, va a haber peligro)
And if I stay it will be double (Si me quedo, es doble)
So you gotta let me know (Pero me tienes que decir)
Should I stay or should I go?
Songwriters: Mellor John, Jones Michael Geoffrey
“Fertile Fields” by Good Riddance
Sometimes those simple things won't turn the trick no more
And our self-important dreams they all lie shattered on the floor
Even the proletariat receives his royalty
And as the battle rages on and on I wish it wasn't me
And it seems so cruel (bis)
The last one breaking up (bis)
Until the winter finds it's worth (bis)
As we glide upon the earth
Now the trees are swept aside by wind and sheets of rain
And the fertile fields once glided have now withered and refrained
Sah who longs for comfort feels instead a savage thrust
And the ashen sky grows ever darker as dawn gives way to dust
And it seem so cruel (bis)
The last one breaking up (bis)
Until the winter finds it's worth (bis)
As we set our dogs upon the earth
Feast on the dead until no life remain
Forward towards a pointless end we squander never gain
“Days of the Phoenix” by AFI
I remember when I was told of story of crushed velvet,
candle wax, and dried up flowers
The figure on the bed all dressed up in roses, calling
Beckoning to sleep,
Offering a dream
words were as mystical as purring animals
The circle of rage
The ghosts on the stage appeared
The time was so tangible, I'll never let it go
Ghost stories handed down, reached secret tunnels below
No one could see me
I fell into yesterday
Our dreams seemed not far away
I want to, I want to, I want to stay
I fell into fantasy
The words were as mystical as purring animals
The circle of rage
The ghosts on the stage appeared
The time was so tangible, I'll never let it go
Ghost stories handed down, reached secret tunnels below
No one could see me
I fell into yesterday.
Our dreams seemed not far away
I want to, I want to, I want to stay.
I fell into fantasy
The girl on the wall always waited for me,
And she was always smiling
The teenage death boys
The teenage death girls
And everyone was dancing
Nothing could touch us then
No one could change us then
Everyone was dancing
Nothing could hurt us then
No one could see us then
Everyone was dancing
Everyone was dancing
No one could see me
I fell into yesterday
Our dreams seemed not far away
I want to, I want to, I want to stay
I fell into fantasy
Our dreams seemed not far away
Our dreams seemed not far away
Our dreams seemed not far away
I fell into fantasy
“Lust For Life” by Iggy Pop
Here comes Johnny Yen again
With the liquor and drugs and the flesh machine
He's gonna do another striptease
Hey man, where'd you get that lotion?
I been hurting since I bought the gimmick
About something called love
Yeah, something called love
Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens
[Chorus]
Well, I'm just a modern guy
Of course I've had it in the ear before
'Cause of a lust for life
'Cause of a lust for life
[Verse 2]
I'm worth a million in prizes
With my torture film, drive a GTO
Wear a uniform all on a government loan
I'm worth a million in prizes
Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk
No more beating my brains
No more beating my brains
With the liquor and drugs
With the liquor and drugs
[Chorus]
Well, I am just a modern guy
Of course, I've had it in the ear before
'Cause of a lust for life (lust for life)
'Cause of a lust for life
I got a lust for life
Got a lust for life
Oh a lust for life
Oh a lust for life
A lust for life
I got a lust for life
I got a lust for life
Well, I am just a modern guy
Of course I've had it in the ear before
'Cause of a lust for life
'Cause of a lust for life
'Cause of a lust for life
[Verse 3]
Well, here comes Johnny Yen again
With the liquor and drugs, and the flesh machine
I know he's gonna do another striptease
Hey man, where'd you get that lotion?
Your skin starts itching once you buy the gimmick
About something called love
Oh, love, love, love
Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens
[Chorus]
Well, I am just a modern guy
Of course I've had it in the ear before
'Cause of a lust for life
(Lust for life)
'Cause of a lust for life
(Lust for life)
Got a lust for life
Yeah a lust for life
I got a lust for life
Oh a lust for life
I got a lust for life
Yeah a lust for life
I got a lust for life
A lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life
A lust for life
(Lust for life)
(Lust for life)
“Fuck the System” by The Exploited
It doesn't really matter
What you've got to say
They never fucking listen
To you any way
(Chorus)
So fuck the system
You can bring it down
So fuck the system
We can bring it down
Future is chaos and anarchy
The misery continues
It's the governement way
(Chorus)
So fuck the system
You can bring it down
So fuck the system
Chaos will bring it down
Get up and stand up
And fight back now
They didn't want to listen
But they'll listen now
(Chorus)
So fuck the system
You can bring it down
So fuck the system
We can bring it down
Thousands of homeless
And more each day
The misery continues
It's the government way
Fuck the government
(Chorus)
So fuck the system
You can bring it down
So fuck the system
Chaos will bring it down