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[Ragnarök_62]

(04-07-2017, 10:34 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:

(04-07-2017, 04:22 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: Here's another sample for you.  Iron Maiden

2 Minutes to Midnight lyrics Wrote:>   Kill for gain or shoot to maim
>   But we don't need a reason
>   The Golden Goose is on the loose
>   And never out of season
>   Some blackened pride still burns inside
>   This shell of bloody treason
>   Here's my gun for a barrel of fun
>   For the love of living death.
>   The killer's breed or the demon's seed,
>   The glamor, the fortune, the pain,
>   Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
>   But don't you pray for my soul anymore.
>   Two minutes to midnight
>   The hands that threaten doom.
>   Two minutes to midnight
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Quote:John X]
Those lyrics are really awful.

You need to ask yourself if they depict warfare which is that's "really awful"?

Quote:And once again, this isn't an anti-war
song.  It's nothing but a political campaign ad that hits you over the
head with a baseball bat.

John,John, where have been? Let's do an equation.
The lyrics and album covers show how how much warfare results in reality bites?
Reality bites = the result was high not copacetic.
not copacetic = bad

"Bad" is usually is what sane people try to avoid. OTOH, "good" is something sane people try to experience.

*I did say "usually".  For example you being the target of the sentence, "Good riddance" , referencing the above, that's certainly not copacetic.

Quote:You don't need a baseball bat to make a point.  Sometimes sublety does
a better job.
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Consider the audience. We're on the intwebs which means there's a huge audience.  Now, lots of said audience attempt the impossible and multitask while reading stuff.  Sometimes it takes a virtual baseball bat to get through.

This time, let's pick a pure anti-war song without a baseball bat:





Peter, Paul and Mary - Where Have All The Flowers Gone ?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?

One can equally construe that the theme of the stanza "where have X" gone to indicate a theme of humans are stupid.  I agree with that assessment. We're tacky also, humans rank high on earth species tacky list.

We're doing that famous population overshoot thingie.  Yeah, that's just as bright as a petri dish full of  bacteria.