Nicky Cheese

The second NoFx song in my NLADP series (first one here), this one arguing against marijuana prohibition via the principles of self-ownership and personal autonomy. Lyrical excerpt below:

Why be sad when happiness can be bought for a little more then free
Modern day prohibition
Are we men? Are we children?
At what age can I choose how to live

The only real drug problem is scoring real good drugs
Haven’t we learned our lesson
The corner store sells finer scotch
But who’s got uncut powder?
We just want what is ours! Dignity!

Hear, hear!

Nofx — Herojuana

Fine! I’ll go halfway…

Nietzsche on song and dance via The Birth of Tragedy:

In song and in dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community; he has forgotten how to walk and speak; he is about to take a dancing flight into the air…He feels himself a god, he himself now walks about enchanted, in ecstasy…He is no loner an artist, he has become a work of art: in these paroxysms of intoxication the artistic power of all nature reveals itself to the highest gratification of the Primordial Unity”.

This weekend’s song–No Government by Nicolette–correlates quite well with the quote above…for a number of reasons.

For one, the techno beat.

Secondly, the lyrics border on a naive form of anarchism, which–if you ask me–is, well, fairly naive. The quote above is similarly incomplete and Nietzsche will be the first one to tell you. Tune in next week for the why!

Nicolette — No Government

This week’s pick reminds me of two things: high school and this reason article. Oi! Oi!

NOFX — The Marxist Brothers