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Why are all of their songs still relevant 30 years later?
Because the problems they raged about are systemic, and the system didn't change.
It did change, though. It got significantly worse.
Because we never eliminate the root cause
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.
Because humans are fucking stupid and history always repeats itself.
All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
Until conservatives and authoritarians stop getting their way.
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
A few weak men are indeed making very hard times
The problem with this quote is that everyone thinks they're the strong men. In other words, it's mostly useless rhetoric that doesn't really identify the problem.
So say we all.
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning."
The problems are systemic and the humans in the system are incentivized to perpetuate the system.
Its not stupidity.
Humans or Americans?
Because those that work forces are still the ones that burn crosses
Because nobody actually listened to and took seriously what they were saying 30 years ago.
Fun fact: After 9/11, various songs evoking 9/11, such as 'Learning to Fly' by Tom Petty, 'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin, 'It's the End of the World as we Know it' by REM ... all banned from airing for about 120 days.
Oh.
And literally everything from Rage Against the Machine.
Other fun fact about this?
This censorship wasn't done by the FCC.
It was done by ClearChannel, aka iHeartRadio, aka, the corporation that now owns or controls basically all terrestrial radio stations.
https://www.kerrang.com/here-are-the-164-songs-that-were-banned-from-american-radio-after-9-11
Warpigs is still banned by Clearchannel
Wow.
I did not know that.
Hooray for the enshittified cyberpunk dystopia.
The same reason socialist theory is still relevant 150+ years after it started
Good example:
Renegades Of Funk
https://tidal.com/browse/track/23682737?uThat one's a cover actually! It's even older :P
The original is very different than that RATM version (as expected), but very good as well.
Because things have gotten worse in the intervening 30 years?
I didn't know they were so WoKe!!