I'm feeling a curious sense of liberation as the world economy comes crashing down around us. Something tells me that beneath the veneer that has constituted our American empire, there has been a truth waiting to be told - a freedom longing to be lived that has been dying of deadly thirst. I have felt it in my soul and have made the typical American mistake of thinking that it is all about me. Perhaps the hunger within for freedom and truth and community is the canary in the coal mine, signaling a greater menace in the land.

So how great is it that Coldplay is the soundtrack to the end of Empire? Viva la Vida is the catchiest tune about global decline I have ever heard. And there in the chorus are the words: "For some reason I can not explain/ Once you know there was never, never an honest word/ That was when I ruled the world."

Will we speak some honest word now to finally say that the emperor has no clothes, that our cheap energy- and equity-supported lifestyles have been plastic, that our longing for intimacy is not something to be buried beneath irony but lived? Bring on the Coldplay.

 

 

// posted by Alex Joyner @ 1:07 PM

 

 

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yeah!!! bring 'em!!!!!

Great blog :D

Oh yes, that's awesome :D