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We are young, confident, affluent, and with no memory of tougher timesWe've grown up in an era of never ending financial growthAnd expected things to stay that wayWe've grown up in owner-occupied homesWith total acceptance of technology, global warming and terrorismOur whole society has been based on consumerism for the past fifteen yearsMaking us dream consumers, yet we don't know the difference between a credit cardAnd a debit card, and we have no idea how much a pint of milk costsOn average we have eight hundred illegally downloaded songs, and one in eight of usSpends more than one hundred pounds a month on our mobile phone billWe've never read a newspaper, and we've never used our chance to voteWe allow our governments to make decisions without giving us all the factsThey send troops abroad who will dieIn order that we can steal resources from the people who have themPeople who meant us little or no harm until we invaded their countryWe allow those troops to commit horrendous atrocitiesAnd yet our leaders hang our alleged enemies for much lessWe've spent years entrusting our futures to our parents, our governmentsThe banks and the corporations who have continually lobbied for their own interestsAnd we've let them make selfish decisionsThat have left our society teetering on the edge of ruinWe're blinded from the information that would really shock usBy stories of sex and sleaze which doesn't make the smallest difference to our livesAnd so we have no desire to do anything about the things that really doWe've watched as greed wipes billions of the world's stock marketsDestroys jobs and livesAnd proves that capitalism is just as corruptible by human nature as communismThese are tough times but we seek solace in our friends and co-conspiratorsWe make small differences in each other's lives, and dream that we can make real progress From Letras Mania