Monday, November 13, 2006

Rage Against the Babies on Spikes

I was listening to Eddie Izzard this morning. He said:

[In Britain] there was a spirit of ex-empire, this thing of "things can't be done," whereas in America, I thought there was a spirit of "can be done!" The pioneer thing.

"Go do it! What do you want to do?"

"I want to put babies on spikes."

"Go then! Go! It's the American Dream!"

"Hi! I'm Crazy Eddie! I put babies on spikes. Do you want a rack of babies? We've got babies on racks! Mmm, they taste of chicken!"


Then I remembered that Rage Against the Machine thing in Know Your Enemy, where Zack De La Rocha shouts "All of which are American dreams!" repeatedly after the music has stopped. I was wondering if he ever considered putting the two together.

Yes I know my enemies
They're the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
Ignorance, putting babies on spikes, brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams!

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