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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Laibach - America and Morality

Laibach*speech in Seattle '04 when G.W. Bush won again the elections from documentary "Divided States of America": 
Winners and Defeaters 
We don't like morality and we sure do not want to preach about it. 
But your county, obsessed by moral values is now forcing us to do so. 
Let's say this very loud and clear: The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. 
Moral values in America today are nothing, pure nothing. 
Behind the faith in God, evil is hiding, lots of evil. 
And scheme against humanity. 
Freedom.. Democracy.. Family.. Life.. 
Protection and security for your own nation are based on Violence, 
Revenge and Hatred for all who set up an obstacle to the overrated fury and practice of the AMERICAN way. 
Lust for power. 
Greed and arrogance is killing this nation and it's soul. 
If there is still any left... 
The game you play. Lying still and sowing death ... to protect your concept of MORALITY and LIFE against the life of others is not the right way. 
 Heedless self-interest for countries like America, was always bad morals. 
But it's bad on economics as well. 
There are no winners in this game. 
No VICTORY for you or anybody else. 
In fact .. it's a suicide... 
Your nation is doing to itself. 
Followed by the number of the ammunition and guns, bombs and bullets, America might still be a leading force and a Global Superpower. 
You appear to us, who had a chance to see you from UP, CLOSE and PERSONAL, as a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. 
A clumsy giant filled with fear and prejudice. 
A giant child abused by his parents. 
A large flock of SHEEP on the open range. 
Without a ranger... 
Without a shepherd... 
And a leader... 
Your president is the opposite of Christ. 
And his victory is base on the moral values. 
CHRISTIAN moral values. 
I tell you this. 
The WORST government is always the most MORAL one. 
But when FANATICS are on top there is no limit or passion. 
Morality, which is based on IDEA is a unmitigated EVIL and don't forget... 
Your president presents the majority of your nation... 
This time it is TRUE! 
It's not even a lie... 
Well my dear one's ... 
It is also true that Americans, in general, are not too intelligent... 
For that reason we can partly forgive you and overlook some of your sins... 
But this will not have stop the decay. 
The historical prime of the America is approaching it's end and this is an historical fact. 
Like every empire, the USA is falling apart. 
E unum pluribus, from one many, 
United you fall. 
Divided you'll stand. 
The Divided States of America are being made and a civil war is being foretold.
*Peter Mlakar (born 30 May 1951) is a Slovenian philosopher, poet, writer, actor, rhetoric, performer.

He graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, Prof. Boris Majer in philosophy and with Prof. Dušan Pirjevc in comparative literature. He has been publishing in the Tribune since the mid-1970s and on Radio Študent. In the 1980s also under the pseudonym erotic literature in Mladina, Dnevnik's Submarine and The New Magazine. In 1987 he joined the art group Laibach, working within the Department of Clean and Practical Philosophy at Neue Slowenische Kunst.

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