This song is amazing! It is so
metaphoric. It was clearly inspirited on the book Brave New World, of Adous
Huxley, and was composed in 80's when Brazil lived a terrible dictatorship.
Despite the present time is (little) different the song as well as the book
portrait some aspects of reality.
The focus of the music is about
social alienation,
mass culture and control.
The workers conditions is hard.
Even more for the real workers, who produce things. There are a long workday,
high tax rate without return in quality public services, low wages, no access
to culture and leisure, and no share of the profits. And there are a migrants,
inside the country. People from northeastern goes to southeast looking for work
and access to infrastructure. But they face bias, injustice, and just
underemployed opportunity.
But these situation is not so
clear. Is difficult recognize it, and even more hard to overcome it. On the
Huxley's book the control, for maintenance of the order, is doing for a drug
named “soma”. Here (on our current society and) on the song is the promises of
a better future. You know the discourse "work hard and the things will be
get better", and populist promises.
Exist also "the opium of the people".
The belief on a divine cataclysm in which a hero, like Noah, will do everything
and the people/cattle will just need follow him.
And, the most cruel of domination,
the powerful ideological control: the media. The lies and manipulation in news.
Even if the people (middle class in yours cars) try to get away from ignorance,
it is hard because we are surrounded by it.
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