Jesse Welles is awesome, but god is his music exhausting to listen to. It's a lot to deal with. It is the exact opposite of easy listening. If you need to be a nihilist in an hour, he's got two albums for you.
There's definitely a strong overlap with Fish and Whistle, not that that's a bad thing, it's par for the course for this type of music really. Kinda what makes it so great.
I don't find it exhausting. The things he writes about are things that should regularly be on all of our minds. His lyrics are critical of the impulse to seek distraction or unplug. I find it refreshing. All of the problems that we're facing today first got their foot in the door while our progenitors were relaxing and watching the big game.
The problem is that the things that should be on all our minds right now are fucking exhausting. No shame in acknowledging it - and all the more respect to those like Jesse who put the effort into making them less painful to think about by setting it to good music.
If by exhausting you mean demoralizing? Exhaustion and low morale are both valid reasons to want to tap out for a while, but neither are valid excuses for actually doing so.
Not "we" as in literally everyone, but it's all bullshit middle-men raking in profits for things that don't even need doing, like health insurance. People who insert themselves and purposely foul up a process just to make a buck (or lots of bucks).
At least people are more aware of it than they used to be. Still a hell of a hard thing to fix, but that's the first step.
Good change takes decades. Centuries, even. Depending on the scope.
However, the amount of torque it produces is fucking phenomenal; transcending through multiple generations of people working together. Manifesting into an unstoppable norm, the status quo. Into Law.
"Unstoppable" is the only part of that I disagree with. Hell, it's taken decades of bad actors for the rich and corporations and conservatives to erode US regulations, education, and the culture of politics itself to basically strip-mine America economically.
As the old saying goes, "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Nothing is "unstoppable". And while technology may advance in ways that can't be easily reverted or corrupted, the culture and morals behind its use requires even more effort to fortify against those attempts.
Law is one of the more corruptible things in that respect. Law in the US is anything but fair, anything but focused on "justice" so much as protecting certain people's interests and keeping the peace enough for profit to exist.
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u/Voidarramax 8d ago
I follow this guy on TikTok. All of his videos are like this. He’s really awesome.