the unthinking majority

Serj Tankian, dos System of a Down, tem em preparação um álbum a solo ("Elect the Dead"), com edição prevista para meados de Outubro. Apesar da proximidade da data de lançamento do disco, Serj disponibiliza no seu site um vídeo relativo a uma canção - The Unthinking Majority - que segundo ele «precisava de ser editada já!».

Surge esta necessidade da sua vontade de «passar uma mensagem» acerca da «presente catástrofe da nossa democracia falhada».


«Borders are the gallows of our collective national egos.
Subjective lines in the sand, water and air are separating plants, animals and atmosphere.
Fear! Fear is the cause of separation for this imposed illusion, this cordoned off space from pre-birth.
When we run out of borders, we reach infinity and unity.

As for flags, they're much less useful than toilet paper.
No one as been caused distress by running out of flags.
They become useful in times of crisis and unjust manipulative coercions pitting the victim against the victor or vice-versa.

Neoliberal globalism is failing due to its undelying imperial ambitions and the discoveries of those sinister ulterior motives.
So the ambitions have reawakened for "democracy promotion", in the past few years.
In real terms, thar means promoting democracy if and only if it serves imperial ambitions.

How about we create a real democracy right here and now!

Let's allow the people to vote for or against a pre-emptive war, universal healthcare, expansion of society security, the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal and World Courts, and the role of the United Nations in interventions and reconstruction of devastated lands. Let's vote for how we want our taxes to be spent, directly.
Major referendums discussed and debated thoroughly representing all sides of each issue on television.

All empires represent the aristocracy in their imperial ambitions, not the general populace!

Also in dire need is a true democracy of nations.
The UN Security Council should be dissolved and the General Assembly should rule all international affairs, allowing all nations equal access to the international forum and law.
Given the truth, all human beings will collectively choose the direction of this lost, possibly last civilization.»


the unthinking majority, serj tankian


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