It’s almost like they didn’t hear a word he said.
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It’s almost like they didn’t hear a word he said.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/wio72z/roger_waters_is_denying_chinas_genocide_on_uyghur/
I mean we'll never know how much a pop culture foray into geopolitics sways people one way or another, its not like anyone will say yeah I was brainwashed until this rock star said something in an interview. I think my point is that the media will spin this as a tool of saying "look at the clown who believes clown things! What a washed up loser" and that sort of thing will work on far more people than will question these narratives. Anyone who is thinking yeah way to go Roger, already probably knows the US is fighting a proxy war with Russia using neonazis, or the Xinjiang "genocide" is bullocks.
So yeah they might ignore it completely but as someone who follows boomer rock star news, I've never seen anything quite as based and correct. Usually its just liberal status quo drivel, Trump bad fascist man type of shit. I guess maybe I'm a little excited by this, its the most punk rock thing I've seen in a long as time. I mean even "punk" bands these days are mostly radlibs screaming about authoritarianism.
I mean McAfee was able to be influential despite being a washed up loser living in the middle of nowhere. Boomers and Gen X have very few voices that sound and look like themselves who speak authentically, by which I mean the only figures they have in media are news presenters and bullshit commentators who have a persistent aura of pure fakeness.
They have nobody that sounds authentic and when someone speaks authentically even if they're speaking complete nonsense it is influential to them, they value hearing an earnest voice from someone that looks and talks like them. The only people that get into media to do that are washed up rockstars. More washed up rockstars are reactionary than like Rogers though.