Homo homini lupus
Homo homini lupus (man is a wolf to [his fellow] man). Thomas Hobbes
If the war is one of the natural instics of the man; it´s ironic to realize that how often the art is used as weapon to fight this behabiour back. It doesn´t matter how much we´ve grown up, how smart we thing we are: the wars are still happening because we´re animals, beasts like Hobbes said. I´ve included here three examples of anti-war songs (in almost one century). It´s sad to see that only the location and the weapons have changed because the rest is the same old story.
1954 “Le déserteur” by Boris Vian about Indochine´s war.
1989 “One” by Metallica about the First World War when a soldiel loses all his senses and limbs. This video has several scenes from the movie “Johny got his gun”.
2007 “Heaven´s Hung in Black” by W.A.S.P. sabout Irak´s war. The title of the song is Civil War´s and Abraham Lincoln´s mentioned.
I´ve chosen two heavy metal bands´songs becuase I find very funnt that these kind of bands were named dangerous for the youth because of their violence when they are openly pacifist.
Posted in High places, the place where I belong | 2 Comments »
March 22nd, 2010 at 2:28 am
I love the song “One” but I must admit I didn’t know the meaning! I learned something. Interesting video.
March 27th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Zhu, yes, it´s an interesting video indeed.
People who say that Heavy Metal means and causes violence, would better pay more attention to the music. Maybe then they could realise how wrong they are.