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You're listening to Soundtrack to the Struggle 2 by Lowkey Thank you for joining us, Noam. In Optimism Over Despair, you say, "It seems to me unlikely that civilisation can survive really existing capitalism". Would you be able to explain that statement for us? ’Really existing capitalism' is what we can see described in the press, day after day. We read that the major banks like JPMorgan Chase are increasing their investment in fossil fuels - including the most dangerous, like Canadian tar sands. And all of this is quite understandable on the assumption that the structure of our institutions is geared to maximising short-term profit and power without regard to what might happen to the world in under [?] twenty or thirty years. But that's spoke capitally [?]... but we can’t survive that. Is it the economic system vs the ecosystem? How are we gonna define deep when the seas have risen? How can we define 'woke' when our sleep's commissioned? Drowned out by Koch brothers bots [?] how can the people listen? Can't detoxify as we watch the sky fade to grey The source devoured corporate power killed the nation's state Sophisticated murder defined as innovation Corporations wine and dine just to mine the information Aiming versus humanity, terrorists who Your search engine knows your thought pattern better than you In an environment resentful uprising is essential The horizon is torrential, thinking silence will protect you Subject to propaganda that terrifies the slumbered But we can jeopardise their cover if we energise the numbers Collectivise or die, protect your mind or suffer Life is paradise to some and a pair of dice to others I saw horror in the eyes of a tired retired fireman Knowing he couldn't help a child survive the frying pan When we riot we disquiet the leviathan SongtexteForget Iron Man I've got a iron lion’s diaphragm My salutations to those with imagination Doom [?] anticipated and that’s no exaggeration Your flag doesn't exist let me back up that statement What happens to the nation if the Queen has a tax haven? Pushing these buttons you don’t need a brave heart Frontex turned the Mediterranean to a graveyard [?] will drive you crazy if you let it Had a mother burying her newborn baby in the desert What's commonsensical is sensible to question What seems to be a lesson is intellectual repression Rebel against the system that deprived you of a voice Rebel against this hell while our survival's still a choice The state committed suicide cannibalised itself While the banks treat infictitious capitol like it's wealth Your lurid lobby system means corruption is legalised Privatised healthcare, elsewhere people die Rebellion lives in all those that dream of a better way Refused to be brainwashed with false visions of yesterday Choose to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted So many choose the opposite, their spirit contradicted Bring a child to the world where the future seems impossible Five trillion dollars a year subsidising fossil fuels The truth was in their eyes but you shrugged and just turned your back I watched a family beg for help while their flat turned to ash Apocalypse now, we saw our future in that damn building CEOs loving profit more than they love their grandchildren We saw our future in that damn building CEOs loving profit more than they love their grandchildren Not to be concerned about the future, preferentially [?], you have to put yourself in the position of, say, Jamie Dimon - the CEO of the biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase. As CEO he has, essentially two choices. One choice is to do exactly what he’s doing - invest direct investments into the most profitable outcome, which happens to to be the most dangerous fossil fuels. You can do that [?] but the other alternative he has is to resign and be replaced by somebody else who'll do the same thing. But this is an institutional problem; not an individual one. Aus Songtexte Mania