Dead Flag Blues

I was reading some stuff on the usenet, and ran into this quote right when I was listening to Godspeed! You Black Emperor:
"Karl Marx, 1867, Das Kapital:
Owners of the capital and business will entice and stimulate in workers the need to buy their expensive goods: houses, apartments and technology, making them venture into expensive mortgage loans up to the level of unsustainability.
In the end, those unpaid debts will make the banks collapse, they will need to be nationalized, and the state will take the path that leads to communism."

It sounded a bit familiar
Anyway, it made me remember that I never submitted this photo...
Here are the "lyrics" of the song, or should I say - introduction speach(?):

"The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this

The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful..
These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
Like a daydream or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
For sure it's the valley of death

I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood"

Apocalyptic, eh? I really like the song, but I think that it's all a load of crap. We're exchanging pretty photos from our warm rooms around the globe, preparing for the holidays, and the world just couldn't be better.


Or maybe it could....?