It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. Check out www.protest-records.com. We know Clear Channel, MTV and VH-1 are censoring music perceived to have an anti-war message (including music by the "B-52s." For goodness sake, the band's name is a reference to a hairdo, not a plane. Perhaps they thought the song's name was "Iraq Lobster"?). In an effort to make an end run around the corporate music blacklist,
Listening to these songs won't do anything to halt the snuffing of military
As the old song said, Die Gedanken sind Frei! ![]() ![]() ![]() |