AJR
All the TV screens say what everyone wants, "Truth", in many languages.
Do we really need "Twitter to Get Shit Done"?
AJR
All the TV screens say what everyone wants, "Truth", in many languages.
Do we really need "Twitter to Get Shit Done"?
Lyrics:
AJR â âBurn the House Downâ Lyrics
Verse 1: Jack]
Used to keep it cool
Used to be a fool
All about the bounce in my step
Watch it on the news
Whatcha gonna do?
I could hit refresh and forget
Used to keep it cool
[Verse 2: Jack]
Should I keep it light?
Stay out of the fight?
No oneâs gonna listen to me
If I write a song
Preaching what is wrong
Will they let me sing on TV?
Should I keep it light?
Is that right?
[Chorus]
Way up way up we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way up, oh no
We gonâ burn the whole house down
Watch me stand in the line
Youâre only serving lies
Youâve got something to hide
We gonâ burn the whole house down
We gonâ burn the whole house down
[Verse 3: Jack]
Yeah, used to let it go
Walk into the show
Gawking at the tricks up your sleeve
Too good to be true
Fool, Iâm in a room
Full of entertainers and thieves
Used to let it go
Woah, oh no
(Woah, oh no)
[Chorus]
Way up way up we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way up, oh no
We gonâ burn the whole house down
Watch me stand in the line
Youâre only serving lies
Youâve got something to hide
We gonâ burn the whole house down
We gonâ burn the whole house down
[Bridge: Jack]
(We gonâ burn the whole house down)
Should I hang my head low?
Should I bite my tongue?
Or should I march with every stranger from Twitter to get shit done?
Used to hang my head low
Now I hear it loud
Every stranger from Twitter is gonna burn this down
[Chorus]
Way up way up we go
Been up and down that road
Way up way up, oh no
We gonâ burn the whole house down
Watch me stand in the line (whoa oh)
Youâre only serving lies (yeah)
Youâve got something to hide
We gonâ burn the whole house down
Woah oh, yeah
We gonâ burn the whole house down
We burn it down, we burn it down
We gonâ burn the whole house down
Re-read crumbs from the beginning. How many were scoffed at when stated and are now, 'duh, everyone know that"?
It is a process people go through to maintain that THEY weren't ignorant, everyone else is.
The process is best described by Charles Mackey in crowd psychology in his book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds' (1841).
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds
When Mackey was writing that stuff, the Revotions of 1848 were brewing up a tempest. There were similar to the revolutions of 2011.
TONS of Ivory Tower comparisons in that.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2011-04-14/understanding-revolutions-2011
PoliticiansâŚ.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/netanyahu-israel-binoculars-whoops-whatever/411607/