Chimurenga.
9th November 2010, 00:01
It occurs to me that there are a few Swans fans on this forum and I felt compelled to share this with fans of his. In my opinion, the man is a great songwriter, lyricist, and is consistently involved in great musical projects. This quote is from an interview quite recently from musicOMH.com;
"Does he follow politics or current events very closely? "Of course I do, and I'm appalled at what's happening in America, at what's going to happen especially. The increasing control of corporations in American politics, control of the media and how effective they are at manipulating peoples' world views, their political thinking. It's amazing; they get huge segments of the public to vote against their own interests by using these false hot button issues. It's really nefarious and very ominous. There are a few very very rich people, incredibly right wing, who just want to get rid of all social services and to bankrupt the government so it goes back to this unbridled capitalism of the early 1900s, no environmental regulation, no health care, no social security, none of that, they want to go back, no public schools" - throaty chuckle - "the state would just be the police, basically. What's happened is that corporations and money have successfully colonised people's minds with mass media, and that's been going on since the '50s. It's getting worse and worse, and it's just really working, this stuff, the whole consumer society. It's a very deliberately created entity, it's not something that happened by accident."
Full interview here: http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/swans_1110.htm
"Does he follow politics or current events very closely? "Of course I do, and I'm appalled at what's happening in America, at what's going to happen especially. The increasing control of corporations in American politics, control of the media and how effective they are at manipulating peoples' world views, their political thinking. It's amazing; they get huge segments of the public to vote against their own interests by using these false hot button issues. It's really nefarious and very ominous. There are a few very very rich people, incredibly right wing, who just want to get rid of all social services and to bankrupt the government so it goes back to this unbridled capitalism of the early 1900s, no environmental regulation, no health care, no social security, none of that, they want to go back, no public schools" - throaty chuckle - "the state would just be the police, basically. What's happened is that corporations and money have successfully colonised people's minds with mass media, and that's been going on since the '50s. It's getting worse and worse, and it's just really working, this stuff, the whole consumer society. It's a very deliberately created entity, it's not something that happened by accident."
Full interview here: http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/swans_1110.htm