What Planet Are You On?
https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/07/what-planet-are-you-on.html
What Planet Are You On?
by C.A. Matthews
Reality isn’t to everyone’s tastes.
This is most evident in the the comment sections of blogs and social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. When someone responds to your carefully thought-out comment with a string of curse words, or worse, a nonsensical tirade that begins, “Climate change is a vast Russian-financed conspiracy begun in the seventeenth century by the horse antibiotic pharmaceutical manufacturers working for anti-vax Illuminati sex traffickers led by the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein,” you gotta wonder. What planet do they live on?
Can’t they observe the severe rise in summer temperatures and wild changes in the jet streams? Can’t they see how much money is changing hands behind the scenes so politicians are more than willing to bend over backward and protect blatant pedophiles? Can’t they understand that Sleepy-Creepy-Jim-Crow-Joe-Warmonger isn’t a “charismatic and dynamic president”? (Yes, some poor deluded fool actually wrote that on a post on Facebook. No, I don’t think they were joking.) Perhaps when you’ve been convinced that, “War is peace,” and “Ignorance is strength,” you don’t really exist in this reality after all?
Here’s my attempt to write a protest song from the ear worm that crawled into my mind and kept repeating itself this week: What planet are you on?
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What Planet Are You On? (a protest song)
Verse 1
Some days it’s bad—everything seems wrong
But folks say “So what?”
What planet are you on?
Verse 2
Cluster bombs fall like rain—we act like King Kong
But why should we care?
What planet are you on?
Refrain 1
When up means down and left means right
The propagandists sleep well at night
It makes no sense to fight their lies
Just plug your ears to crush those cries
Verse 3
The temps in May hit one-twenty-one
I say this is Earth
What planet are you on?
Verse 4
A governor moved guest workers along
Now no one picks crops
What planet are you on?
Refrain 2
When Neo-Nazis do as they please
We give them arms and tanks as a tease
A proxy war makes money by shootin’
Raytheon rakes in profits, blames it all on Putin
Verse 5
When CNN gives no word from across the pond
Who needs to know facts?
What planet are you on?
Verse 6
When journalists are jailed for oh-so long!
What’s “freedom of speech”?
What planet are you on?
Refrain 3
They’ll keep us scared and fed with lies
With no responsibility or alibis
We’re folks with no morals or scruples
Benedict Arnold calls us his pupils!
Verse 7
When nukes start flying, the bells ding-dong
Build my own bomb shelter?
What planet are you on?
Verse 8
Oceans rise, tsunamis ring Earth like a gong
There’s no climate change?
What planet are you on?
Refrain 4
Smoke and pollutants fill hazy skies—
That choke and maim your kids—makes you cry
But billionaires continue to do as they please
‘Cause capitalism depends on war and greed!
Verse 9
When folks ask me what’s up with this song
I'll look askance and shout—
What planet are you on?
Verse 10
If killing and fighting makes us strong
Then we don’t belong here
‘Cause the planet has been wronged!
Refrain 5
It’s time to march—take to the streets
Our planet to save, our souls to keep
The future’s ours if we all get along
Then we’ll never need ask, “What planet are you on?”
Related Articles and Interesting Links:
US Asset Managers Have ‘Significant Investments’ in Nuclear Weapons and Cluster Bombs: Analysis https://scheerpost.com/2023/07/19/us-asset-managers-have-significant-investments-in-nuclear-weapons-and-cluster-bombs-analysis/
Matt Taibbi: ‘In Their Labs’: Fifteen Illuminating Passages in the Proximal Origin Chats and Emails https://scheerpost.com/2023/07/19/matt-taibbi-in-their-labs-fifteen-illuminating-passages-in-the-proximal-origin-chats-and-emails/
Virgin Islands Sues JP Morgan For $190 Million for doing business with Jeffrey Epstein (clip) youtu.be/mWgRHmqxJ5U
Victims of Migrant Boat Tragedy Are Casualties of the US “War on Terror” https://truthout.org/articles/victims-of-migrant-boat-tragedy-are-casualties-of-the-us-war-on-terror
The Hype of Nuclear ‘Renaissance’ https://scheerpost.com/2023/07/20/the-hype-of-nuclear-renaissance/
What Should We Do With The Perpetrators Of The Climate Crisis?
https://popularresistance.org/what-should-we-do-with-the-perpetrators-of-the-climate-crisis/
Modern ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ Event Will Be Worse Than First Predicted https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/07/19/modern-sixth-mass-extinction-event-will-be-worse-than-first-predicted/
Carbon Budget to Limit Temperature Rise Ticks Away as Climate Clock Drops Below Six Years https://truthout.org/articles/carbon-budget-to-limit-temperature-rise-ticks-away-as-climate-clock-drops-below-six-years/
Tribes Take The Lead On Regenerative Agriculture https://popularresistance.org/tribes-take-the-lead-on-regenerative-agriculture/
In Ukraine, US Adds to Barbaric Cluster-Bomb Legacy https://scheerpost.com/2023/07/21/in-ukraine-us-adds-to-barbaric-cluster-bomb-legacy
House and Senate Set Up for Fight Over How Much Military Aid to Give Taiwan https://news.antiwar.com/2023/07/20/house-and-senate-set-up-for-fight-over-how-much-military-aid-to-give-taiwan/
What We Can Still Learn From J. Robert Oppenheimer https://scheerpost.com/2023/07/21/what-we-can-still-learn-from-j-robert-oppenheimer/
Establishment Tool Says Jill Stein Voters Regret their Vote - But Can’t Find One! youtu.be/xm11h21VkIY
‘Underground Climate Change’ Is Shifting Chicago’s Foundations
https://popularresistance.org/underground-climate-change-is-shifting-chicagos-foundations/
19-Year-Old Girl Sent to Jail for Self-Managed Abortion in Nebraska https://scheerpost.com/2023/07/22/19-year-old-girl-sent-to-jail-for-self-managed-abortion-in-nebraska/
60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty https://truthout.org/articles/60-years-after-the-march-on-washington-1-in-3-black-children-live-in-poverty/
Tijuana Groups Protest Border Wall Construction At Friendship Park https://popularresistance.org/tijuana-groups-protest-border-wall-construction-at-friendship-park/
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I liked this. A LOT! Creative, interesting and go your points across in an interesting way. Keep on writing lyrics. And poetry.
Keep writing!