Reflections

Art is a Reflection of Reality

"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable, and help to change it." -Ernst Fischer

Harrowdown Hill - Thom Yorke

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"We think the same things at the same time, we just can't do anything about it. We think the same things at the same time, there are just too many of us so you can't count."

Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire is notable for being the place where the body of Dr David Kelly was found in 2003. His evidence had raised questions about Saddam Hussein's possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction — the official justification for the UK government's decision to invade Iraq. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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V for Vendetta - Wachowski Brothers

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"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

V for Vendetta deals with issues of race, sexuality, religion, totalitarianism, and terrorism. Its controversial story line and themes have, inevitably, made it the target of both criticism and praise from sociopolitical groups. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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Network - Sidney Lumet

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"You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here, you're beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You do. Why, whatever the tube tells you: you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing, WE are the illusion."

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Featured Music

americanterroristAmerican Terrorist - Lupe Fiasco

"Now if a Muslim woman strapped with a bomb on a bus with the seconds running give you the jitters? Just imagine a American-based Christian organization planning to poison water supplies to bring the second-coming quicker."

tellthetruthStand Up - Flobots

"Stand up, We shall not be moved, Except by a child with no socks and shoes, If you've got more to give then you've got to prove, Put your hands up and I'll copy you, Stand up, We shall not be moved, Except by a woman dying from the loss of food."

tellthetruthTell The Truth - Mos Def, IT, and Eminem

"All they talk about is terrorism on television, they tell you listen but they don't really tell you their mission, They funded Al Qaeda and now they blame the Muslim religion, Even though Bin Laden was a CIA tactician."

imagineImagine - John Lennon

"Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too, Imagine all the people, Living life in peace."

worldonfireWorld on Fire - Sarah McLachlan

"The world's on fire it's more then I can handle, I'll tap into the water try and bring my share, Try to bring more, more then I can handle, Bring it to the table, Bring what I am able."

moshMosh - Eminem

"No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil, No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal, If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero. Look in his eyes its all lies..."

americanidiotAmerican Idiot - Green Day

"Don't want to be an American idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind fuck America."

2plu22+2=5 - Radiohead

"All hail to the thief, All hail to the thief, But I'm not, But I'm not, But I'm not, But I'm not, Don't question my authority or put me in the box, 'Cause I'm not, 'Cause I'm not."

anthemAnthem, Part 2 - Blink 182

"Corporate leaders, politicians, Kids can't vote, adults elect them, Laws that rule the school and workplace, Signs that caution sixteen's unsafe, We really need to see this through, We never wanted to be abused, We'll never give up, it's no use, If we're fucked up, you're to blame."

4thbranch4th Branch - Immortal Technique

"It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain. Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change. They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto. The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle."

timeisrunningout Time is Running Out - Muse

"Our time is running out, Our time is running out, You can't push it underground, You can't stop it screaming out. How did it come to this?"

yeahyeahyeahYeah Yeah Yeah Yeah - The Flaming Lips

"And so we cannot know ourselves, Or what we'd really do, With all your power, With all your power, With all your power, What would you do?"

coldplayA Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay

"Oh I'm gonna buy this place and start a fire, Stand here until I fill all your heart's desires, Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn, And do back the things they did to you in return."

whativedoneWhat I've Done - Linkin Park

"In this farewell, there is no blood, there is no alibi, Cause I've drawn regret, From the truth, Of a thousand lies, So let mercy come and wash away... What I've Done... "

Through Literature

The Cosmic Serpent - Jeremy Narby

"It seemed that no one had noticed the possible links between the “myths” of “primitive peoples” and molecular biology. No one had seen that the double helix had symbolized the life principle for thousands of years around the world. On the contrary, everything was upside down. It was said that hallucinations could in no way constitute a source of knowledge, that Indians had found their useful molecules by chances experimentation, and that their “myths” were precisely myths, bearing no relationship to the real knowledge discovered in laboratories."

Confessions of An Economic Hitman - John Perkins

"Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. I should know; I was an EHM."-Perkins

1984 - George Orwell

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

Through Pictures

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An Angolan man is analyzed at a nutrional feeding center in Kuito in May 2003. This former Portugese colony has claimed over 500,000 lives due to nonstop civil war since 1975.

Sugar Cane Worker in Florida caneworker

Next to mining sugar cane work is considered the hardest in the world. After an exhausting day's work the men are driven like cattle to camps enclosed by barbed wire. Here they live often over 100 to a room.