Uncertain future
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Written in september 2016, lyrics slightly rewritten in may 2020 to include the "global pandemics" line.
Trivia
I wrote this thrash song back in 2016 to address the state of the world (especially western civilization) in recent years. I edited the lyrics in 2020, adding the COVID-19 pandemic to the already huge list of problems, but the song mostly deals with the tensions existing between different superpowers around the globe, the economic recession of the 2010s, the terrorist attacks we have received from the third world, and (most of all) our AWFUL response to all these problems: a huge thirst for authoritarianism and "strong men in charge" has resurfaced in recent years; distrusting modernity and seeking refuge in the oppressive dogmas of the past seems to be everything we're capable of, instead of embracing and trying to understand the complexities of our time. Faux-populism runs rampant, as a consequence.
Lyrics
The west is menaced from both inside and outside
How to conciliate these threats?
Crisis, poverty, fear and resentment
Fueling regressive tendencies
Crippled economy, no more money circulating
Foreign attacks, global pandemics, what shall we do?
Populism and xenophobia on the rise
Our world seems to go backwards
For the errors of the latest few decades
A century of progress thrown away
Easy words eaten up by the masses
Easy scapegoats, conspiracy theories, irrationality
Uncertain future filled with fear and doubt
What's the future of the west?
Walls and barriers arising again
Competition between superpowers
Misinformation and simple-mindedness
Dogmatic traditions, shelter for the herd
Fear of the modern, fear of the new
Critical sense replaced by superstition
Authoritarianism, a form of collectivism
Suffocating individual merit
Stoical rhetoric arising again
From its epicurean ashes
Populism and xenophobia on the rise
Our world seems to go backwards
For the errors of the latest few decades
A century of progress thrown away
Easy words eaten up by the masses
Easy scapegoats, conspiracy theories, IRRATIONALISM
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