Arcade Fire - Culture War (Official Audio)

[@PBandJames1]

I’ve always loved the two bonus tracks. This one has such good lyrics and could have been on the album!

[@annie1779]

Arcade Fire is one of those bands that is always ahead of their time. Every time I go back to listen, I feel that they were right about everything but no one was really paying attention. Idk how else to put it, but it's a very bittersweet feeling.

[@Noooooothx666]

100%

[@chadtrimm5002]

Culture war is a socio-political concept penned 100 years ago. And it has occurred in all civilizations throughout history. We're simply more conscientious of the battleground we stand on

[@childofthesun32]

I do feel he's one of Thom's 'Children' though.

[@Hubbledriver]

"These are different times we are living in" Yip they sure are.

[@CirilZupan]

This right here is probably my favourite Arcade Fire song. They've got a huge discography, amazing tracks, but I'm always getting back to this one. Emotions are out of this world. I really wish, they will play it live, when I attend the show. Thank you Arcade Fire for who you are!

[@johnr797]

Same, seek out this song on a weekly basis

[@lessimcdowell9897]

The culture war is motivated by a neoliberal agenda Neoliberalism In the early 1970s, a group of democrats and republicans formed a whole new type of American conservatism and social engineering and that type of engineering has been coined, neoliberalism. The concept of neoliberalism formed out of laissez faire economics and evolved into something much worse in post ww2 europe. In an autopsy report on German industries that put all their hope into hitlers government to protect them, the western business leaders came to the conclusion that since they are already the masters of industry they might as well be entitled to managing governments and propaganda as well. The mission objective of neoliberalism in america was an ambitious one and can be confirmed by reading the powell memo from 1971 but much of what I have written here came during the Reagan administration. The plan: 1) talk the fortune 500 companies into pitching 10% of quarterly earnings into buying off all the American politicians of both parties, all government officials in every agency, all the media outlets and the anchors they pay and all the judges and courts. 2)pay the media to stop criticizing the private sector so car manufacturers can ship all jobs overseas and effectively turn America into a service economy instead of a production economy. 3)Pay government / cia to plan coups in oil rich nations so that an American / British oil oligopoly can control production / price of all global oil. 4)Pay the politicians of both parties to never pass working class legislation and only pass corporate laws and gerrymander districts so the corporate candidates always win. 5)Pay the courts and judges to hurt enemies and protect corporations. 6)social engineer wedge issues. the main objective here is a way to drive a wedge straight through the working class and get half of them to vote pro corporate without even realizing it, the Republican Party is built to constantly pass corporate law. (All mainstream media including msnbc steer viewers to the center right, all social media is also meant to attract left leaning people and steer them to the right. Fox is the status quo, it keeps all republican voters from becoming too anti establishment while making their audience feel like a counter culture. The Democratic Party is historically for working class so when democrats win majority, the donors can only pay them to create “do nothing caucuses” and that’s exactly what they do. If dems were paid to pass corporate laws like republicans, they would face uncertain primaries much like Kristen sinema.) 7)platform evangelicals to get Christians to ignore pro abortion biblical texts (numbers 5 11 22) and become anti abortionist cafeteria Christians so they vote Republican. 8)Adopt a southern strategy that gives a black welfare queen scapegoat to all the southerners that used to vote democrat before the civil rights movement so they now vote Republican. 9)establish trickle down economics so that all mothers and housewives in lower and middle class households have to enter the workforce and much like abortion, feminism can become a huge wedge issue that helps more American vote republican, while at the same time the low labor market value will benefit the owners. (ironically enough, it was Reagan and the “conservatives” that promoted the nuclear family but ultimately pushed through these anti family policies with reaganomics and forced all low skilled conservative mothers and housewives into the workforce, it was not a surprise that crime exploded because no parents were at home anymore) 10)implement financialization: deregulate wallstreet to the point where corporations and the oligarchs that own them will never lose power. have the fed quantitatively ease gambling losses of those oligarchs and corporations so they never financially lose by printing more money. 11)Never allow competition in the market or an end to planned obsolescence by merging in new and successful companies into existing conglomerates that essentially function as oligopolies. 12)Make sure only laborers are taxed and never shareholders and owners. 13)when quantitative easement causes the inflation rate and interest rates to rise, sacrifice labor by laying off millions of corporate workers and kick them out of economy so they stop spending and it will ease interest rates and borrowing for corporations will become affordable again and gambling and quantitative easement can continue. 14)make certain lower class families never organize worker cooperatives and become financially independent of employers and government by simply adding a few positions to college campuses and firing leftist economic professors. Blacklist anyone from media that promotes worker cooperatives and make sure the narrative is always off economics and on trans people turning children trans or something and if economics are the topic make sure it’s capitalism vs the Soviet planned economy or capitalism vs social welfare programs and never capitalism vs worker cooperatives. After reading the memo, nixon made powell a Supreme Court justice just two weeks later. There were a few snags in this plan though, in 1973, Nixon and the neoliberal front which by this point probably included the cia, had access to opposition research on republican politicians that would never accept dark money so they could defeat them in primaries in 74 but they didn’t have any research on dems and had to break into offices to retrieve them. This came to be known as the watergate scandal. Carter getting elected in 76 also slowed down the movement. In 79, the neolibs and cia got the Iranian hostages(something caused by one of those oil coups) released but they decided to keep them held by their Iranian captors for 100+ more days than they were negotiated free so that carter would be hurt in the ‘80 election. Reagan was elected and was far more successful than nixon at implementing powells plan. Today we are living in powells neoliberal america where the donor class wants you to think they only donate to one party but even trump has admitted to donating to democrats because the system is entirely corrupt. The post 80s neoliberal infrastructure mostly works by main stream media making dem voters think everything is gops fault and republican voters think everything is dems fault. It’s called divide and conquer. There’s no such thing as Republican and democratic fighting, theres just one group that has both parties in their pocket. If there are any policies in this country you do not like, blame the people that own the politicians and courts and media and government. They are the fortune 88. They are an oligarchy. The oligarchy’s main motivation is to keep ALEC going as much as possible. ALEC is a corporate think tank that passes corporate legislation. This type of legislation and social policies like anti gay or anti abortion laws actually kills local economies. the neoliberal deep state dont care about red state economies though because they live in nyc and San Francisco where those social policies don’t reach them but all the corporate laws that kill small businesses do reach them in blue states. Anyone that gets in the way of ALEC has to be removed from the equation. Donald trump can’t win general (electoral) elections anymore because his personality motivates people that don’t even vote to get registered and vote against the gop. this hurts ALEC and ALEC is all that matters to the people who actually own everything in this country. They don’t care about aborted fetuses, they’ve owned the Supreme Court for 30 years and have allowed 30 years of fetal murder and only now shot down roe only to hurt trump and maga for a few election cycles so they can retake the Republican Party which they see as there’s.

[@Unknown-rq4xs]

The vibe I’m getting from this song wants me to catch my breath again and again. Love this!

[@gravitytwins1921]

the song fits the times so well.

[@krusha311]

I always knew this masterpiece was prophetic

[@fridaythe13thMP4]

Wow, so awesome!

[@VOIDMAKERR]

Un saludo a Agustín Laje 🐍🐍 Dando la batalla cultural

[@pianoluc6187]

Beatiful Song

[@nkappelgaard]

Love this song so much!

[@courtneyjd1111]

I can’t believe this didn’t make the album it’s one of my all time favorite songs

[@petajames4292]

You want it now you got it🎶 awesome song x

[@STShaw-lo9jv]

This song feels like growing up during the 60s.

[@johnr797]

Or the 2000s

[@bigjacket7934]

We are all embroiled in this as we speak 13 years later...

[@TheSchuyler75]

Love this song! 👍👍🙏🦋🌞✌🏻

[@pnwmeditations]

I admit this isn't their strongest song, but it resonates with me so hard.

[@samuelvelasco8574]

No me canso de escuchar esta canción

[@EuphoricGloomHuff]

Win channeled his inner Gnecco for this song

[@advertise3606YT]

New song! Awesome

[@Victor_M]

🎶🎼🎵❤️

[@sofiaverissimo2173]

This is intro is so similar to I'm only joking intro

[@vasileiosfilis9284]

!

[@laurentgauthier206]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👌👍😍🎶🎵👏

[@charickter]

God dammit you kids! Get on to my lawn!

[@TheSchuyler75]

HEY!!! WHY CAN’t We Americans watch “Speaking In Tongues “ featuring David Byrnes??? No fair!!

[@AlexsaurusRex]

If you have a VPN you can spoof your location so that you could watch content from other countries.

[@nicolebarnett4956]

Wish I never paid that Verizon bill for all the text messages I never sent that month, , or that gas bill.

[@kobold7763]

Ron DeSantis really needs to make this his official 2024 campaign song while he’s still in it 😆