It is said that there are two ways of getting ahead: Destroy the people in your path or raise yourself above them. Protest music generally relies on the ethic of destruction.
I wrote what seems to be the most reviled and disliked review of the Muse album The Uprising. My argument was almost certainly not infallible, yet no one wished to argue points with logic or reason. There were a couple of wisecracks which were honestly fairly funny. Most of the answers were a combination of logical nonsense and angry name calling.
The review and subsequent personal attacks came about because I could not tolerate the hate speech in the album. Suggesting that people need to die and have their cultures destroyed just for being different is the antithesis of tolerance. Yet, the crowd who cries tolerance the loudest is willing to see a large portion of humanity destroyed and dead, just to get themselves ahead. (more…)
