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Robert Inhuman, about "Dead End Protest"

This song is not against the idea of protesting. It's about the reality that a lot of protest efforts don't seem to be very well thought out or organized, rendering them little more than an incoherent blur in the eyes of the general public, all the easier for the media to distort or brush off. I feel like these situations are ones in which passers-by often agree with what's being said, but they are not given any guidance or foothold as to how to contribute to the proposed change; therefore the intended effects of the people protesting are rendered futile.

Simon Severe, about "Dead End Protest"

I feel I entered protesting after some golden era in America (Seattle) and through missing that I must have missed the point. My first demo was the '04 Republican Convention where I never felt such an utter sense of futility in my life. While in the midst of the crowds of New Yorkers watching us march around and yell at no one in particular, my fresh young eyes gazed upon the crowd and wondered "what ARE we trying to accomplish?" We obviously were not going to shut down the convention and we knew that. We were out there using a large amount of energy to make a statement: "WE DON'T LIKE THIS"... Ok, and...???

I wondered about the people standing on the sidelines watching; I wondered what exactly we were suggesting them to do. Many people were watching us and they very well may have thought, "Oh yeah, such and such (insert issue here), that is unfair." AND THEN...

The most profound experience I had during that week was when I left the largest march and started walking backwards. I kept going and, while I retraced the steps where the mass of a few thousand people had just been, I noticed that the streets were littered with refuse from the event: empty water bottles, torn bits of signs and food wrappers. Minus the beads it looked exactly like the streets of the French Quarter in NOLA on Ash Wednesday; the day after Mardi Gras. The city services had recruited a legion of probably underpaid Chicano workers about 50 feet behind the parade sweeping up the trash. This trash was made by union organizers, immigrant rights activists, and many others who came out that day to raise their voice, among other things, in defense of the rights of these people, essentially, to get paid a fair wage to pick up their trash, when really they should be picking up their own trash (or not making trash). It dawned on me that it seemed to make more sense to help share in the work of the "working people" instead of just sending a message to whoever about their plight. I was tired of messages already, I wanted actions, and not just symbolic actions that send out a message stronger than words, actions that fix things, or try to. This was the realization that led me to have an obsession with the utilizations of our beliefs in our everyday lives, in every action we take, not just when we meet up to yell at the sky.

lyrics

(passive observers just nod in shame)
protest all you want - it's ineffective and boring
passive observers just nod in shame - they have no voice in your sob story
get them to agree (just words) so fucking what
still ain't got no resource to make this mean a fuck
did you want to have voice or do you just want to complain
did you ever actually intend to cause anything to change?

first of all - convince me I should care
but more important - show me how I can matter...

credits

from Resisting The Viral Self LP​/​CD (2007​-​2009), released March 29, 2009
Ryan Faris: hardware electronics.
Robert Inhuman: words, voice, edits.
+ tapes by Evolve.

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