By Manila Ryce
Published Tuesday, August 5th, 2008, 8:25 pm
Filed under: Videos: Political, Videos: Music, Videos, US Politics
The youth of America don’t need Hope. We need Rage.
This music video was directed in 2000 by Michael Moore when he had a bigger set of balls. It highlights the lack of choice Americans had between Gore and Bush (thank God all that’s changed). The video ends with a quote from Ralph Nader: “If you’re not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you.”
The song’s sequence of “Who controls the past now controls the future/Who controls the present now controls the past/Who controls the past now controls the future/Who controls the present now?” Is based on a series of thoughts by Winston, the main character in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, about the fact that the Big Brother controls the past and therefore controls the present and future. Others have interpreted these lyrics as a statement against revisionist history, and how the secrets that politicians keep from the public can greatly affect the future.
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Thanks for posting this. I was just telling my son about the Nader quote the other day and couldn’t remember it exactly. I sent him a link to this post, hope he watches.
08/6/08 at 2:29 am
One of my favourite songs by RATM. They are without a doubt, in my mind, one of the top ‘take a hard look at society’ bands of all time. All their songs have inspired me to not to believe things without looking below the surface, so to speak.
I hope that after their reunion tour they get back together officially, and produce another album. I would definitely buy that in CD.. and that is saying something for me.
08/6/08 at 11:07 am
Their political statements have always been impeccable, but the music just hasn’t kept pace in the last several years.
08/6/08 at 3:50 pm