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Our Restive Zeitgeist

by Opir

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Aside from the broken social contract, the one thing has united people in all these different regions and countries: disappearing opportunity. We've relied on governments and (mostly large) businesses to remedy our situation, but as has become abundantly clear, no help is coming. The latter was perceived to be reliable out of a mix of national interest-tinged self interest, the former because it is what we elect them to do. Instead, many of these large businesses have become untethered from their home country in this era of frictionless globalized capital, and easy access to low-cost (and in some cases, suffering under Mercantilist regimes) labor. Governments, on the other hand, have succumbed to Neoliberal, non-Ricardian-Free Trade ideology, internal division, pure incompetence, and myopia. Both, of course, have become parties to corruption, influence peddling, and the system of revolving door jobs. These last issues have become a central focus of many extant protest movements (and are the subject of our song "Mussolini's Revenge.")

Now, we've begun to reach a boiling point. Inchoate, at times unfocused, but rapidly coalescing around many of the issues above, this worldwide crisis has been decades in the making, and is the subject of this song. It's particularly focused on the crisis in the US and the attendant "Occupy" protest movement.

Full explanation: www.opir-music.com/blog/lyrics-and-explanations/our-restive-zeitgeist-song-about-protest-movements-around-the-world/

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Verse 1-2
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Mounting sense of discontent
Can't find solutions
Disillusionment becoming palpable
Across the world
Across the nation
Disaffection with the status quo
Universal revulsion at the engines of
Corruption, it's rotting from the inside

Interlude
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It's up to us
It's up to us
They've abdicated
Can't reflect
After 30 years, it's becoming clear:
They've lost the consent of the governed

Interlude 2
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We've tried to work within the existing systems
We've tried the vote box; "jury" box is tainted
We're on the soapbox, we're in the streets
Just remember what that final box is
Verse 4
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Cognitive capture and its discontents
Public choice run rampant

Verse 6
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This is reclamation
Don't you know a crisis of legitimacy when you see it? Do you see it?

Verse 7
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Now the lessons of Schumpeter [liquidation is dangerous
need to be relearned

Idled, indebted, and now indignant
It's boiling over
Chorus
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Who will save us?
Final: Who will save you?
End
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We're waking up homeless on the continent our fathers conquered

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released November 16, 2011

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Opir New York, New York

"A thoughtful reflection on America's politics from the rise of Reagan to present day. Opir's polished, caustic soundscapes, rhythmic textures, distorted samples, and dark ambient industrial beats recall FLA, Hocico, Mentallo & the Fixer, and Muslimgauze. Beneath the visceral, corrosive auditory assault and dancefloor appeal of each track lies a richly-contextualized political message" - Coilhouse ... more

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