While the 9/11 incident has sparked much introspection concerning US
policies and how they led up to this present state, the collective
consciousness of the American public has only grown inward and
xenophobic. People respond and relate to rock music because the
overwhelming majority of themes presented speak of isolation, agnst,
hopelessness, etc. And while the genre itself only grows more
derivitive and trite, its content plays directly to the hearts of
bruised children that were raised in a culture that knows no
happiness outside of materialism. Rock in its past form has ended.
In its place a new and faceless monster, created for mass consumption
by purely profit driven industries and fed by crying, hysterical,
naked children now resides. Modern Western culture, US in
particular, isolates humans to such an extent that the values of
community and social responsibility, which held us together for so
long, have given way to selfishness and profiteering. In its wake
are many ills (we all know this already), but its new sound track is
modern rock.
― epicac, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link