Born Free … Maybe. Are We?
Poignantly haunting Midnight Oil lyrics have a bad habit of recurringly reminding die-hard fans to question each decade or so that, no matter much time has passed, or life has changed, are things really just the same?
“You’re watching people fighting,
“You’re watching people losing,
“On Armistice Day.
“The watchers do the wincing, reporters so convincing, but the TV never lies…”
Or does it? Estimates of attendees at various protests always seems to dramatically bounce around.
The song’s sarcasm aside on that last point, it is hard to tell what is true and accurate these days
