Don't think they're expressing their political views per se in this song, only the totality of the world humans now inhabit. Anybody with a basic understanding/interest in science, the self destructive tendency of humans, how our species is affecting the planet, knows humanity is at a critical point of its history (where we may very well transform into history no more - from a planetary perspective). There are all sorts of lights flashing up on the dashboard (e.g. Ai, human genome engineering, a global economy teetering on the brink of a major financial shock, collapse or massive correction. Notwithstanding the increased risk of our total annihilation via nuclear conflict, which will create the lithification the Manics seem to illustrate (particles, atoms and molecules). Or [worse] via nuclear conflict we dumb humans manage to knock earth out of its current orbit (the Goldilocks zone) and voilà...bye bye world 😳. Almost a cert if humans if ever enter the age of nuclear fission. Scary). So I guess while people like Elon Musk are prepping for their ark. The masses only option is to question what's going on in the world today. Listening to the Manics spread some common sense is fine by me. The Manics, so far, were eerily prophetic in one their old songs telling us where the future was headed ('If you tolerate this..."). On the other hand perhaps the CERN institute atom smaller will alter the fabric of space (who knows if this has already happened?). Or we get hit by an asteroid. Whatever happens it feels like something big is going to happen (yep, bigger than Trump re-entering the White House or those we are told wanting to kill him)
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Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers’ new single ‘Decline & Fall’ is out now. Watch the official lyric video by longtime Manics collaborator Kieran Evans.
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