Music thoughts again.

I was thinking about music last night, I guess I was listening to Fugazi and I never really thought about the fact that they were really Emo. That's when the idea hit me, Emo was about things back in the late eighties and early nineties, well, things other than being sad and angst ridden. I suppose back then we had an American full of nuclear fear and cold war pressure and that's the part I don't get. Remember all the protest music of the Vietnam war? What about all the political Punk and Hardcore that came out of all the eighties because we lived in a corrupt system and under constant worry that we could all be burnt to ash any second due to a crazy Russian button pusher? The invasion of Panama, Castro, Qaddafi and his stuff we bombed, did these things stop existing? No, however people don't want to sing about politics anymore, that is too depressing, they would rather sing about depression, that's more cheerful. I am sure the bands are out there and they are trying to become public with their music but this system of media and government being bedfellows really helps keep subversive thoughts and ideas quelled. I have to think that Jello Biafra, Ian MacKaye (not dead by the way), or Kieth Morris, have a few younger counterparts out there that can bring something to music that has been missing for so long. Sure Bad Religion gets radio play but mostly for songs about the decadence of Los Angeles and not for anything particularly political. All this whiny crap gets my undies in a knot, we live in a world that is involved in a war because of things that our government started in the late seventies, (Iran Contra anyone?) so why can't we have some music that is a direct offshoot of the musical ideology of that period? How about this, we disband ABC and FOX broadcasting, burn Disney to the ground, crush Freechannel under a massive chukka boot and beat the holy monkeys out of Linkin Park and that whiny bitch singer? You know, give him something to cry about, as my dad used to say. Maybe once all the "pop" music garbage was off the radio people would have to start using their brains again long enough to actually transmit and electrical impulse from one node to another, causing stimulus, causing thought. Oh what a world that would be, when Emo music didn't suck so hard once more.