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SONGS of Freedom

 

SONGS of Freedom

 

Hunter S Thompson was once asked by his illustrator Ralph Steadman “what’s the meaning of life?” Hunter raised his temper & basically told Ralph never to ask that question. As a political journalist he knew all too well how deep corruption goes in our world & so ideas & idealism, great in theory really hold no water.

I was just reading about a human rights lawyer who was able to win a big environmental damage suit for an Amazonian Indigenous group over a mining company who'd polluted their water supply (sound familiar?). The mining company of course has paid nothing of the fine & what has happened is that the human rights lawyer has been counter sued by the mining company for more than 50 times what the mining company were sued, has been held under house arrest for years & has had his passport confiscated (so he can no longer fly to the Amazon to work with his Indigenous clients).

Apparently the judge in the countersue case has shares & dealings with the mining company & is clearly corrupt. & so again, we are powerless against big business, because corruption is so widespread. & yet ordinary individuals are at one another other words over concepts over hypotheticals & consistently ignore where the real crimes are committed. The old 'divide & conquer' trick of the elites that people fall for again & again.

So there’s a reason why Hunter drank so much & anyone who’s reckoned seriously with the lay of the land drinks, drugs, insanities so much, because, it’s all fucked. & to borrow from a great stoner, all we ever have is redemption SONGS – SONGS of freedom. Just songs.

 

 

Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2024.

 

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