discussions like this always bring me back to the Dead Kennedy’s song Stars and Stripes of Corruption

Not only is the music one of their greatest, but the lyrics are Jello Biafra’s best. If you have never heard it, imagine surf guitar, fast pace and a poet that can unleash lyrics at bullet speeds while staying in tone and driving the beat. The end of their career finally and IMO their magnum opus. The lyrics are just so good. Here is one part that I really think about alot…

But what can just one of us do

Against all that money and power trying to crush us into roaches?

We won’t destroy society in a day

Until we change ourselves first from the inside out

We can start by not lying so much and treating other people like dirt

It’s so easy not to base our lives on how much we can scam

And you know it feels good to lift that monkey off our back