• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Who fucking rules us?

    Sociopaths mostly I’d say.

    There’s a great Tom Waits song called God’s away on business with some pertinent lyrics:

    who are the ones we left in charge? Killers, thieves and lawyers

    Great song btw.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      That’s from Waits’ stage adaptation of the famous German unfinished manuscript Woyzeck (Voy-chek), it was a song from act 1 setting the scene in which a working class man would be toyed with and experimented on by high society and the army, driven to madness and killing his wife and himself.