SLY & THE FAMILY STONE: There’s A Riot Goin’ On (deluxe ‘Gold Edition’ re-issue) (2013) + promo ‘product video’

There’s A Riot Goin’ On. Actually there isn’t. Despite public sector cuts, flatlining pay, a dearth of youth employment, worsening conditions and rights for most of those who work, unintelligent cuts in benefits for most of those who can’t, mooted pay rises for MPs in the UK, a worrying rise in racist rightwing groups and religious extremism, increasingly oppressive government, nosey pricks at the NSA and GCHQ using Prism to monitor all your interweb shit, outrageous tax evasion and avoidance by corporations, government double standards on tax evasion and avoidance (let’s make a lot of noise about the immorality of it but do next to fuck all about it!), banks who caused the worst economic crisis in eighty years still not being brought to heel and still not curbing obscene bonuses and a successful combined government and media campaign to shift the blame of the crisis onto benefit claimants and immigrant workers. Despite all of that we’re sleep-walking into some sort of neo-feudalism. Question people and they give a pathetic shrug, switch on some more reality TV and …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM