Eco-communities as a social vision

Eco-communities as a social vision
Egalitarian and ecological communities, like the pictured East Wind (www.eastwind.org), are very close to our vision of an ecological society

06 May, 2008

Stonewall by Annihilator, Album: Never Neverland, 1990



stonewall - go to bat
unless you want to live like that
stonewall - can't we see
we're our own worst enemy

a land said to have all, wealth in land, in man
qualities soon to exhaust as man's greed poisons the land
streams, once fresh, were centres of life for so many a creature
beauty without defence, polluted, never to replenish

collage, blue and green, seen as golden industrial sites
smudge as toxic pollutants destroy her remaining rights
the power of corporations, spewing chemicals into the air
fines are imposed to discourage, but what's a dime to a millionaire

it's time to listen, and see the signs
it's time to listen and hear her cries

the one that gave us life is being burnt to the raw
reaping unprotected riches, human nature's self-destruction flaw
the power of corporations, spewing chemicals into the air
fines are imposed to discourage, but what's a dime to a millionaire



A song that connects environmental destruction and pollution with the chase for profits by corporations. If there is no kind of postmaterialistic moral or aesthetic attitude towards nature, Corporations will keep on classifying the relatively small fines and charges for pollution as a trifling sum of their expenses in their budget and not as a pressure for conforming to the environmental laws.

you can hear this song in youtube

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Stonewall is a great, great song by Annihilator!!

Anonymous said...

Stonewall is a great great song by Annihilator!! I like the music video..It's serene..The guitar solo by Jeff Waters is a killer!..GREAT BAND, GREAT SONG! -Mosleh^Bangladesh

candiru - stratis aigaiopelagitis said...

Thank you for commenting from the far Bangladesh!

Really a great song!

I also restored the missing link and you can see the original videoclip

Benno said...

Hey. Found your blog while googling for my article Bleeding heart heavy metal music
. I didn't know this Annihilator song so thanks for putting this out! Perhaps I found something elsewhere that you haven't heard yet too?