Poison Politix – Pick Your Poison
Hope you enjoyed your freedom. That didn’t last too long, did it? Somehow, people, the vast majority of us, at least, always feel troubled when they’re left to choose. That’s why, without exception, the dictators will always win in a free election.
What does it all mean for the rest of us who were just doing just fine with nobody telling us what to do? Will we just fold, get back in line and learn to accept direction like everyone else? The odds are against us, but there are still some shouting for the things being taken away.
Most of the world has learned to deal without personal freedoms, but who knew that this mood would shift to the U.S.A. so quickly? The feeling in the air is that the future is being written for you by a chatbot as we speak. Poison Politix, at least, aren’t having it.
The first thing that makes “Pick Your Poison” such an effective punk-rock protest song is that it identifies the guilty party – all political forces. It’s not a fight of right versus left, but them versus poor old you. Poison Politix shout about shutting down a world that wants to feed you its medicine, whether you need it or not. They may be wrong, or they may be right. But unless someone keeps putting guitar chords to these thoughts, nobody will have a choice in the matter any time soon.
Onward Debacle – A Waste of Precious Time
All these psy-ops are a giant waste of time, and what a hassle they must be to accountants having to disguise where all the money goes each month. Imagine all that effort in building a force capable of destabilising the minds of regular people and all the years of training and building a backstory! And then imagine all the effort involved in getting regular folks who just want a beer and a comfortable bed to believe those narratives!
Nah, if you really want to build something, what you need is a bunch of young folks, hormonally distressed males in particular, who you can send out into the forest. Give them a cause that they can unite over, like some impending apocalypse, and give them a bunch of instruments. If it worked for The Stooges, it can work now! And Onward Debacle are treating this kind of chaos like an invitation to go out and change the world for the weird.
In fact, you could make the case that Onward Debacle’s “A Waste of Precious Time” is religious music. No, it’s the kind you’d hear chanted on a hillside inside an orthodox church in Greece. It’s not quite as sinister! No, this is the music that becomes sacred once everything has stopped working except for the generators of those kids hiding in the woods making crazed circus-punk songs.
