Originally Posted by
Khrz
Just because you're against the Republican politics doesn't mean you walk around raising a righteous fist in the air. FFS, you have Bono who's wayyyyyyy more politically engaged, who made a very huge (if controversial) PR stunt with Apple quite recently. Just because you make a record and a handful of songs about how pissed you are at the state of things doesn't make you an activist, and just because you're making money and supporting industries doesn't mean you're betraying your humanist ideals.
And YZ is a goddamn record, not a pamphlet. If it was a book it would be a hamfisted 1984-slash-Fight Club fanfic. It's as deep as me during my teens wishing we didn't need money and dreaming about the humanity helping the starving and the diseased. It's nice, makes you feel good about yourself, and is also the My Little Pony of politics. It was a metaphor about events that didn't need to be treated as such because they were right in our face, that was connect-the-dots-make-believe. Great record, nice universe, unnecessary analogies.