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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Why are all of their songs still relevant 30 years later?

[-] Catma@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Because those that work forces are still the ones that burn crosses

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Because the problems they raged about are systemic, and the system didn't change.

[-] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

It did change, though. It got significantly worse.

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago

Because we never eliminate the root cause

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Because nobody actually listened to and took seriously what they were saying 30 years ago.

Fun fact: After 9/11, various songs evoking 9/11, such as 'Learning to Fly' by Tom Petty, 'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin, 'It's the End of the World as we Know it' by REM ... all banned from airing for about 120 days.

Oh.

And literally everything from Rage Against the Machine.

Other fun fact about this?

This censorship wasn't done by the FCC.

It was done by ClearChannel, aka iHeartRadio, aka, the corporation that now owns or controls basically all terrestrial radio stations.

https://www.kerrang.com/here-are-the-164-songs-that-were-banned-from-american-radio-after-9-11

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Warpigs is still banned by Clearchannel

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Wow.

I did not know that.

Hooray for the enshittified cyberpunk dystopia.

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Because things have gotten worse in the intervening 30 years?

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

Because humans are fucking stupid and history always repeats itself.

[-] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

The problems are systemic and the humans in the system are incentivized to perpetuate the system.

Its not stupidity.

All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Until conservatives and authoritarians stop getting their way.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social -1 points 5 months ago

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

[-] yeehawboy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

A few weak men are indeed making very hard times

[-] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

The problem with this quote is that everyone thinks they're the strong men. In other words, it's mostly useless rhetoric that doesn't really identify the problem.

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