Conscious Agitator - Culture War.

Purchase link: https://ecd1.bandcamp.com/track/culture-war

I am using the medium of music to protest the idea of culture wars.

lyrics
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All i've ever seen these days are just wars...

Wars on the front
Wars on the back
Wars back home
Wars way back

Wars far away
Wars not far away

Wars close
Wars very close

Wars not fought with weapons
Wars only fought with words...

Inflated and perpetuated by those who want to get some gains...
And yet people like to fight these wars where no one wins...

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We all love our culture - fuck other cultures (chant)

We like to be - diverse and multicultural
We want to be - friendly with the others
We pretend to be - tolerant of the other cultures

But tolerance of intolerance is what we want of other cultures
I really like to be one with your culture
But don't want to really know about your culture
Your culture does not hold up - to my lofty cultural standards

Your ethos collide with mine - Your reasons as to why just confuse me
I can not bear to understand what the fuck any of what you say or what it means

I just hold no pathos - I become disillusioned
I can bear no pain - I only feel second hand shame

Logos dictates therefore - your culture becomes inferior
Logos dictates therefore - that we shall be superior

I want your culture to be like - my very own culture
My culture is superior - Fuck your very own culture

Let's talk about wars, shall we?

You want to get in a culture war?
Do you want to escape the culture war?
Are you a part of a culture war?
Are you consumed by the culture war?
Do you just not care about a culture war?

if you answered correctly to some of these questions
I need to ask you one last question:

what is your own cause, Soldier?
What are you fighting for, soldiers?
What are your reasons, soldiers?
What did the ones above you told you, soldiers?

I Don't want you all to give me the brief someone else wrote
I want to hear your very own thoughts, soldiers
I know you're a smart bunch, very much so I know

I know you must think of your own
You make decisions of your own
Are you involved in this on your own?
or did the order came to you, the one below?

I know it's uncouth of me to ask your vision
I apologize - Should have asked for permission
I never got taught manners - That's my admission
I am just a curious man, Just wanna see what you envision

In these uncertain times - we want to hold on to the things most certain
In times of great wars - there is only one thing that you can bet is certain

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Ideology acceleration - are those ideas you present that real?
Sowing division - Oh, that part really becomes very real!
Seeking acceptation - from the ones above you in the ranks
Bending over - to take it all in in stride when you upset the ranks

I think you don't understand these conflicts
it's fine - I don't claim to know either
If I did, i'd have started my own podcast and air what I thought
I mean - who would do something like that?
Talking about issues without really knowing the issue?
It's almost like I am writing a song about it...

...whoops?

(chorus)

Maybe we are not supposed to know after all?

Things are most complicated as people make it out to be
Needlessly so - it needs to be overly complicated
We Don't want the low ranking soldiers to understand matters that complicated...

But hey, i ain't complaining - suits need to keep the people divided
politics becomes much easier when you define someone - as the enemy

"Oh, we gotta fight the enemy
We must kill this enemy
Give me money to get rid of this enemy
Vote me so i can fight this enemy
Reelect me so i can fight the enemy
keep voting my party so we can erase the enemy"

- or at least pretend to

In these uncertain times - we want to hold on to the things most certain
In times of great wars - there is only one thing that you can bet is certain

(chorus)

these wars plays very much like an intricate chess game
but the only winning move here, is to not play the game
don't listen to the people sowing this pointless division
I don't care for your spreading of your ideas
Keep your ideas open, but don't force them over
I respect your convictions, but let people have contradictions

At the end of the day, we're all human
And speaking of what it means to be a human...

Is just as simple as not caring what you are
Nor what body you know that you're in
Nor what gender you feel that is right at the end

If you're being an overbearing asshole
You need to get the fuck off the way

Why do you not try to be a human
And just have some good fucking fun...