'The Parts'

Perpetual Wars

This song is about the jungle and the people who move beneath the canopy with their guns.

My generation didn't have a great cause. As ironic as the demographic Generation X is, part of the identity is the utter lack of conviction in protesting that existed in the mid-1980s. No Vietnam War protests for us. No great conflict in society to overcome except our own consumerist consent into the globalised neo-liberal ideology - which of course seduced us all with an array of consumer goods. Politics had been replaced by the aestheticisation of commodities. It has to be said it is in this vacuum of great causes that allowed the next generation of deplorable right wingers to creep their way back into the picture, but that is almost by-the-by.

And yet great evil was right there had we only looked and paid attention.
Perhaps it was a marketing move by the US Government that they stopped having overt acts of war headlined by their own troops. The era instead saw something more bizarre in the Iran-Contra affair where the US Government was implicated in smuggling guns into Central America to rebels to fight a proxy war against the leftist Sandinista government. When it all blew up, it seemed obvious that the Reagan Administration should take responsibility and be consigned to history, marched out of the White House. instead, they came up with the expression 'maintain the fiction' and carried on into the first term of George Bush Sr.

The funny thing was howAmerican society in general did not get up in arms about the Iran-Contra affair. It sort of made its way through the headlines but overall, the American population still maintains the fiction to this day that the US President was above all this criminality - and they let Reagan sail off into the sunset as if he were some great moral leader of the nation. And if American citizens weren't going to fight, why should the rest of the first world really care? That was the vibe.
All the same we thought that very apathy, was crap.

I guess it's appropriate to reflect back today in an era when US Republicans circled the wagons to protect their lame-duck law-breaking inept-as-fuck Prez Donald Trump to hark back to an age when Republicans did exactly the same thing in protecting Ronald Reagan. Evil shit is perpetrated by those in high offices all the time and they expect to get away with it at our expense ALL the time.

If nothing else as artists, we wanted answers so we were asking questions in our art.
And still, the questions continue.



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