Serj Tankian - The Unthinking Majority
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Published 2007-09-24
Note From Serj Tankian:
Borders are the gallows of our collective national egos.
Subjective lines in the sand, water and air are separating plants, animals, and atmosphere.
Fear! Fear is the cause of separation for this imposed illusion, this cordoned off space from pre-birth.
When we run out of borders, we reach infinity and unity.
As for flags, they're much less useful than toilet paper.
No one has been caused distress by running out of flags.
They become useful in times of crisis and unjust manipulative coercions pitting the victim against the victor or vice-versa.
Neoliberal globalism is failing due to its underlying imperial ambitions and the discoveries of those sinister ulterior motives.
So the ambitions have reawakened for "democracy promotion," in the past few years.
In real terms, that means promoting democracy if and only if it serves imperial ambitions.
How about we create a real democracy right here and now!
Let's allow the people to vote for or against a pre-emptive war, universal healthcare, expansion of social security, the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal and World Courts, and the role of the United Nations in interventions and reconstruction of devastated lands. Let's vote for how we want our taxes to be spent, directly.
Major referendums discussed and debated thoroughly representing all sides of each issue on television.
All empires represent the aristocracy in their imperial ambitions, not the general populace!
Also in dire need is a true democracy of nations.
The UN Security Council should be dissolved and the General Assembly should rule all international affairs, allowing all nations equal access to the international forum and law.
Given the truth, all human beings will collectively choose the direction of this lost, possibly last civilization.
All Comments (21)
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Serj Tankian is a genius and he is my hero. After years of listening to him he's helped me see the world. It is true most people are unthinking of what they here. This song is defiantly true on all fronts. It's defiantly a piece of art.
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who needs anti depressants when you've got SERJ!!!
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I feel like serj made these in his living room
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Serj Tankian For President 2024
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congratulations.. if you Reached to this kind of music.. than you are AWESOME
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who else is listening to this and his other songs because they make you think of everything that has been happening this year?
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Almost 10 years later and this song is looming on relevancy again.
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This isn't a band, this is Serj's solo work. and even if we lived in another generation we could still listen to it. It's called the future..
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The thing i really enjoy with Serj Tankian videos. (other then the artist and music obviously) They are for the most part the only place i can find heated and yet educated debates that aren't about something completely stupid. Way to combat the unthinking majority, such the case of little kids complaining that this video is 'poorly made' the idea behind it is pretty damn amazing, take in the simplicity, people.
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Wow this is fucking awesome. Why it has only 1 mln views?
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SERJ TANKIAN.WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I have always been a fan of SOAD and Serj and I remembered this song after a few weeks of starting antidepressants. Life has truly become more tolerable ever since I started the medication, fuckin' Serj and his lyrics now hit me twice as hard.
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Most definitely the best vocalist of all time I can't agree any more.
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Such a powerful song ! I watched this music video when I was around 9 or 10 had no clue what it was about but i thought it was a pretty damn good song . This is the first time I've watched in about7years and it's so sad how I can understand and relate to what he's talking about . The world is a fucked up place.
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we are the thinking minority
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2020 АКТУАЛЬНО!!!
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But what about The Thinking Minority?
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Like still today, nothing changed
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Man this song ages like fine wine. Especially the line " Anti-depressants, controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable Making life more tolerable". The opiod Crysis, how drugged the youth are, man this song was wayy ahead of its time.
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this song is dedicated to my countrymen here in the philippines and to the philippine government.
