Zack: "...we’re dealing with this huge, monstrous pop culture that has a tendency to suck everything that is culturally resistant to it into it in order to paci

Zack: "...we’re dealing with this huge, monstrous pop culture that has a tendency to suck everything that is culturally resistant to it into it in order to pacify it and make it non-threatening." I'm convinced that's not an organic natural phenomenon, but rather a feature of the corporate-state partnership between movie and music producers, the corporations and shareholders that largely control them, and the bureaucrats and politicians who don't like to be criticized by popular artists. It's pretty clear that new acts with such political messages no longer get record deals; that's why rap and hip-hop turned into a celebration of ostentatious consumption in the USA - although acts similar to Rage Against the Machine are more common in Europe, they're mostly industrial/metal acts, such as, for example, Arch Enemy, The World is Yours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk2-bgwA0Ro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk2-bgwA0Ro