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Why U So Like Dat? - A Tribute
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A Russian interviewer quizzes Rage guitarist Tom Morello: “Can you explain your attitude toward modern social reality?” Yes he can. Because while the USSR invented agitprop, the 31-year-old Morello’s making sure the term at least survives. The interviewer asks him about his political mentors, and you can practically see Morello, good left-leaner, trying to come up with an answer that will be both pro-revolution, yet not seem, well, decon-four bonkers in a country not really in the market for a revolution right this very moment.
He smoothly offers the names of Emma Goldman and Rosa Luxemburg-revolutionaries who thrived outside of Russia, and thus without the taint of the gulag. Asked what he thinks of the Russian Revolution today, Morello notes that today is the 4th of July, and ties the original hopes of the Russian Revolution to those of America’s Revolutionary War. He brings it up to the present, observing “There’s a permanent culture of resistance here in Russia, and I feel pretty confortable with that,” before cautioning Russians fleeing the authoritarian past not to adopt the moden excesses of the West. “I would warn all your listeners to closely watch Boris Yeltsin and his masters on Wall Street,” he finishes.
As the interviewer pads away, Morello looks quite pleased with himself “Doing interviews is a lot like freestyling,” he says. I dare you to ask Nas about modern social reality.
Answering exam questions is a lot like freestyling.
