[Intro: Noam Chomsky, Lowkey]
You're listening to Soundtrack to the Struggle 2 by Lowkey
Thank you for joining us, Noam.
In "Optimism Over Despair", you say, "It seems to me unlikely that civilization can survive really existing capitalism".
Would you be able to explain that statement for us?
Really existing capitalism is what we can see described in the press day after day
We read that the major banks like, JPMorgan Chase, are increasing their investment in fossil fuels - including the most dangerous, like Canadian tar sands
And all of this is quite understandable on the assumption that the structure of our institutions is geared to maximising short-term profit and power, without regard to what might happen to the world in another twenty or thirty years
But that’s spoke capitally, well we can't survive that...
[Verse 1: Lowkey]
Is it the economic system v the ecosystem?
How we gonna define deep when the seas have risen?
How can we define 'woke’ when our sleep's commissioned?
Drowned out by Koch brother bots, how can the people listen?
Can't detoxify as we watch the sky fade to grey
The source devoured corporate power killed the nation's state
Sophisticated murder defined as innovation
Corporations wine and dine just to mine the information
Eight men versus humanity, terrorist who
His search engine knows your thought pattern better than you
In an environment resentful uprising is essential
The horizon is torrential, thinking silence will protect you
Subject to propaganda that terrifies the slumbered
We can jeopardise their cover if we energise the numbers
Collectivise or die, protect your mind or suffer
Life is paradise to some and a pair of dice to others
You're listening to Soundtrack to the Struggle 2 by Lowkey
Thank you for joining us, Noam.
In "Optimism Over Despair", you say, "It seems to me unlikely that civilization can survive really existing capitalism".
Would you be able to explain that statement for us?
Really existing capitalism is what we can see described in the press day after day
We read that the major banks like, JPMorgan Chase, are increasing their investment in fossil fuels - including the most dangerous, like Canadian tar sands
And all of this is quite understandable on the assumption that the structure of our institutions is geared to maximising short-term profit and power, without regard to what might happen to the world in another twenty or thirty years
But that’s spoke capitally, well we can't survive that...
[Verse 1: Lowkey]
Is it the economic system v the ecosystem?
How we gonna define deep when the seas have risen?
How can we define 'woke’ when our sleep's commissioned?
Drowned out by Koch brother bots, how can the people listen?
Can't detoxify as we watch the sky fade to grey
The source devoured corporate power killed the nation's state
Sophisticated murder defined as innovation
Corporations wine and dine just to mine the information
Eight men versus humanity, terrorist who
His search engine knows your thought pattern better than you
In an environment resentful uprising is essential
The horizon is torrential, thinking silence will protect you
Subject to propaganda that terrifies the slumbered
We can jeopardise their cover if we energise the numbers
Collectivise or die, protect your mind or suffer
Life is paradise to some and a pair of dice to others
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