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@@NoFocksGiven_ Imagine a society where politics are of the populus for the populus, a thinking majority, where people take responsibility for their own lives. We don't have to call it communism if that makes you think of something else, lol.
Serj was very ahead of his time. I’m just now learning what the point of the “Mezmerize” theme was about. The solution to avoiding antidepressants is hypnosis. Hypnotherapy goes hard. EDMR baby
can we make Serj relevant again? I know he wrote this in response to the wars in the middle east, but this song resonates with what's happening in today's US grounds
All I know is that my son loves you, and I never listened to metal until my son was 14 and I had to listen to be on an even level with him. This is the first metal song that Ive ever listened to and the first time that I ever listen to metal was with him, and this song made me be able to tolerate metal. Sometimes when I miss him, I listen to it. Like today..... thanks Serj
i love his voice!!! i love the music he create from his mouth!!! since i was young i'm listening to him never get bored os this magic!!! Love from greek Russia!
We fought your wars with all our hearts You've sent us back in body parts You took our wills with the truth you stole We offer prayers for your long lost soul
When people escape being transfixed by a glowing screen and escapism, they can unite to change things. Our society has been atomized and the isolation gets in the way of change.
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." ― (Two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient) Smedley D. Butler
Надежда Пантелеева I don’t know brother our drive for war made nukes which could end everything as we know it. That’s pretty advanced lol. At the same time our drive for war put us in space and on the moon. ( depending on your beliefs on that subject )
I have severe Major Depressive Disorder, PTSD, and panic disorder. I need multiple antidepressants to keep the suicidal ideation and the flashbacks from taking over my entire life. If you can't make your own neurotransmitters then store bought is fine.
Ich kriege nicht genug von SOAD, ganz gleich was ich mir anhhöre, die Jungs habens drauf und ich bin nicht so einfach zu begeistern und das ist Perfektion und Harmoniert, die Texte usw sonst geht die Lobeshymne ewig so weiter, genau weiter so BITTE
I always felt this song was better than "Empty Walls". I wonder why it didn't get the same popularity as his other songs. It has a lot of the rock sound and meaning that I loved in SOAD.
It makes me pretty happy, knowing that there are still some artist out there that have not sold out and just appreciate the art no matter what the Unithink Majority thinks.
SOAD sold out decades ago bud, welcome to the power of corporatocracy and gentrification. Replace the “antidepressants” and oil with Serj songs and money, just replacing one grand delusion for another.
This is (by far) my favorite music video ever. I used to play with army men all the ime when I was a toddler and pre-teen, so I love how they animated it all. The song is great too; it's my favorite on the CD. Keep up the good work, Serj!
This is the best music ever. I have never heard anything near as good as this. Both what you put out and what you and SOAD put out is amazing. GOOD WORK! Peace with the turrks!
this video really hit me. im on anti-depressants for my anxiety disorder; i take mine for my fear of life in general. and every day i feel better but there are some days i feel like im being pumped up with happy pills and spoken too like a crazy person. the imigary of the pills dancing into the mouth of the depressed character with his skull cracked open and brain exposed really spoke to me and made me sick to my stomach. beautiful work.
"People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises." Lenin
You know a lot of shit is wrong with the world. You can think about it or even counter-act, but you will not achieve a victory. I just realised how much easier it is to join the decieved, and search for your personal happiness without the desire to change or create something timeless.
Honestly i think that serj uses "antidepressants" to implicitly refer to THINGS (just to make an exemple) that make you forget about the shit that happens in the world. For exemple people who work 20 years to buy the biggest car of the neighbor (still an exemple)
Dario Tibaldi authorities told me to see doctor who is trained in sheep school lol if I had demons I would get to Peru and ayahuasca would end that. Haha
Cracks me up to see poeple saying "this sounds like system of the down". No shit ? Maybe it cause the lead is serj in which who is from system. This is his solo records. Come on people so some common sence..
+Andrew Proctor What's more ironic(but also a little sad) is how people say things like this after listening to song with a title such as this... Backward Brains Syndrome?? I would like to think there is hope, at least to a certain degree of possibility. WAKE UP AMERICA!!! It's time for us all to change so that we can all flourish...together.
A system concert where they mix Serj’s solo songs and Scars on Broadway songs into a set list and peform them together would be fire. A shame that’s probably not happening
I remember when I was 15 years old and this song was on polish tv. That was first time when i fall in love in song which i heard for the first time. Still in love
It's fascinating how Serj's message against Corporacracy is being absorbed into the very system he criticizes, and becomes "commodified", a product ready for consumption in a market based economy. He is featured on UA-cam(owned by Google corporation) and is apparently sponsored by Warner Brothers, also a corporate entity. I love Serj's music and the powerful messages he emphasizes with such passionate words, but it feels that the message is being drowned in the overall noise of the "system", Media's overwhelming output of information that desensitizes us to the point that we lose the ability to discern between a very important message and an empty blabber, therefore we all hear the message but no one does anything about it.
+fanzeldadaniel Yes, but we need a certain critical mass of people to "get" the message in order to make it truly effective. How do you turn "Unthinking majority" into a "thinking" one? How do you take the power from the Elite class who are in charge of all the important decisions and give it to the masses? How do you teach the people to see the difference between something valuable and garbage? And all this needs to be accomplished while Mass Media is perfecting the ways of dumbing down the population
Freemind Thinker I really don't know. The only thing that I can tell you is that people revolt when they're literally starving; from the French revolution to the worker's protests, that majority did something because they didn't have nothing to eat or they ate very poorly. Right now is a different picture we are quite comfortable with our current situation even when there are few individuals that are disgustingly rich and we live our lives in debt but hey at least we are not starving... perhaps If we try to show to other people, friends and family the wrongs of our world they could reflect that's my take on the issue.
+Freemind Thinker It' fascinating how Freemind Thinker thinks he is Freemind Thinker while he is economic illerate, spoiled by the free market, which he hates.
***** "This anarchist" >Ancom >Anarchist Lol. "It's not a government when we do it" "defined as extreme left, " >2015 >Left and right wing "Being in favor or just playing along with capitalism != in favor of corporate owned governments and invading arab countries" Corporatism =/= capitalism. True capitalism is possible only in anarchocapitalism. You can't say "there is free market" when the government has monopoly on violence. Currently we have more or less enslaved market. Read Rothbard.
I'm 11 and I've loved Serj for quite a while, I hope that one day Serj will come to Uk and I can see him live, it would be pretty damn amazing. Anyway Serj you're bloody amazing
I can see the relation to Tool's "Right In Two" mv... personally, that one's always been and still will be my favorite, simply due to the sheer complexity and lengthy elaboration of the system as a whole. This definitely seems to fit right up the same alley, though, considering the message being relayed. Props on the music video, Serj! P.S. you kinda sound like A System of a Down (unless it actually is the same singer), which is a compliment btw because I like them too haha
Serj Tankian is denuncing much more than war itself. In the title (not only in the title though, in the refrain too), he clearly denunces occidental peoples which don't have any opinion in politics, so they can be manipulated as hell ; and that's why there's atrocities like war.
The unthinking majority just elected a new president in USA so maybe we should teach and educate our children on Empty walls and other important subjects. So we have future not next war on our hands
2007 : Unthinking majority
2020: Still the unthinking majority
True
Unthinking communists.
1990 something prison song. 2020 prison song.
2001, but you're still right
@@NoFocksGiven_ Imagine a society where politics are of the populus for the populus, a thinking majority, where people take responsibility for their own lives. We don't have to call it communism if that makes you think of something else, lol.
This song just keeps getting more relevant every year
i know right??
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Yeasssss i can accept like a russian, every word is truth........))
@@user-ji5wt3lb1y American propaganda you have to admit is much better than American propaganda.
Serj was very ahead of his time. I’m just now learning what the point of the “Mezmerize” theme was about. The solution to avoiding antidepressants is hypnosis. Hypnotherapy goes hard. EDMR baby
Someone really enjoyed playing with those toy army-men.
E Marci this was me as a kid
I just liked burning them. Still do. Doesnt fire make you feel clean?
not really but this song is fun to play
Yea they did lol world trade center ash and soot aint very clean but nevermind that you played max payne 3 didnt you
This isn't play time. Are you one of them? The Majors?
Damn, the new toy story movie looks depressing
Serj for president?
I agree
In all the countries please
For real... But he's Armenian/Lebanese so it's probably a no go :(
yes!
Better than Trump
can we make Serj relevant again? I know he wrote this in response to the wars in the middle east, but this song resonates with what's happening in today's US grounds
Denisse Del Monte what's funny is that it is still relevant...all this is still happening. We are still over there
He was woke before woke was a thing
Also about the war in Donbass where I am from
its always going to be relevant so long as we keep being slaves to capitalism
@@schizofennec Capitalism is why you're able to make this comment on UA-cam, comrade. It's alright; you're welcome ;)
The “Antidepressants controlling…” part is just too delicious! 👏👏👏
Making life more tolerable...
@@nexusfairy3038 I believe that you're wrong
@@nexusfairy3038 I believe you're wrong
@@brandongalloway659 I believe I'm wrong too.. I can't even take them or it gives me more axniety.. lol
All I know is that my son loves you, and I never listened to metal until my son was 14 and I had to listen to be on an even level with him. This is the first metal song that Ive ever listened to and the first time that I ever listen to metal was with him, and this song made me be able to tolerate metal. Sometimes when I miss him, I listen to it. Like today..... thanks Serj
wow i’m 15 now my mum just thinks i’m strange for listening to metal :/
why this comment not in top comment
My condolences, I wish you and your loved ones all the best my friend
this is a beautiful comment. much love.
This isn't metal.
i love his voice!!! i love the music he create from his mouth!!! since i was young i'm listening to him never get bored os this magic!!! Love from greek Russia!
Hello Greek !! :)
А у нас рубль 60 за доллар. :(
woooooooh
✊
I am greek
And here we are again.
Serj Tankian is BRILLIANT
Removing the comments was done to clear the way for the oil brigade.
As a member of the oil brigade, I advise you remove this comment or it will be removed by force.
@@omegawarlord we dont need your hypocrisy
Noice
MartianManHunter2258 it wasn’t Serj it was Warner
Someone is gonna get Daniel day Lewis'ed. No country for old men here.
We fought your wars with all our hearts
You've sent us back in body parts
You took our wills with the truth you stole
We offer prayers for your long lost soul
Here in 2024 and the song is just more relevant than 16 yrs ago
Sad that 14 years later this song is more relevant than ever. When the fuck will humanity learn?
nothing.
Never, we'll never learn. We were doomed since day one.
@@iamtamashii4184 its more so that we havent found a way to spread informatino to the masses. ant its getting harder and harder to organize
@@j.b.3502 bros never heard of the internet
When people escape being transfixed by a glowing screen and escapism, they can unite to change things. Our society has been atomized and the isolation gets in the way of change.
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." ― (Two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient) Smedley D. Butler
silversobe 😎👏
we, the humanity, existing about 700 000 years, and war is our biggest international achievement?? then we are lowest in development among animals
Надежда Пантелеева I don’t know brother our drive for war made nukes which could end everything as we know it. That’s pretty advanced lol. At the same time our drive for war put us in space and on the moon. ( depending on your beliefs on that subject )
silversobe
Smedly is the highest decorated Marine ever in U.S. history
Serj's videos always make me feel like I'm on some sort of political sociological acid trip. The real scary thing is that its reality.
Exactly this. Life today is surreal
Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more dollarable
Like your ''very useful'' mask of the system.
@@xlide31 🤡
@@xlide31 🤡
I have severe Major Depressive Disorder, PTSD, and panic disorder. I need multiple antidepressants to keep the suicidal ideation and the flashbacks from taking over my entire life. If you can't make your own neurotransmitters then store bought is fine.
@@michalcook8761 sane people already ended their own life. Mental illness isn't real. This is natural response to status quo.
serj is one of the most greatest people on this planet and that says a lot
\mXm/
Ich kriege nicht genug von SOAD, ganz gleich was ich mir anhhöre, die Jungs habens drauf und ich bin nicht so einfach zu begeistern und das ist Perfektion und Harmoniert, die Texte usw sonst geht die Lobeshymne ewig so weiter, genau weiter so BITTE
2020 anyone?
Man it'd be wild if something like this ever happened, wild dystopian film here :)))
This video should have a lot more views by now 😔
Yea
Yeah that's what year it is well done mate. You're a genius.
making life more tolerable, making life more dollarable
at first i laughed at the rhyme, and then i realized how true it is...
"dullerable"
Both of you could be right, dullerable and dollarable. He does play on words a lot. Both make sense.
I remember my older sister playing this when I was a kid. I can only thank her for introducing me to same good Music.
We need a modern Serj / SoaD álbum talking about all the problems in today's society.
Serj will be releasing a new album in the fall
You’d be surprised how much the problems back then actually relate to today.
This music is "it".
@@jasondeguzman6279 yesss
@@louisehollis5279 unfortunately that's because society is still as fucked up as it was when this was first released.
All of his songs that start with "un" are pure masterpieces
I always felt this song was better than "Empty Walls". I wonder why it didn't get the same popularity as his other songs. It has a lot of the rock sound and meaning that I loved in SOAD.
the whole album is a masterpiece
I really like this one but nah, Empty Walls is so much better
It makes me pretty happy, knowing that there are still some artist out there that have not sold out and just appreciate the art no matter what the Unithink Majority thinks.
SOAD sold out decades ago bud, welcome to the power of corporatocracy and gentrification. Replace the “antidepressants” and oil with Serj songs and money, just replacing one grand delusion for another.
All his songs have some meaning behind it's like every song is a different story...
U must be new to art. Lol
No shit sherlock
Almost like it’s a song or something
More and more relevant today.
I love how he can put his pollitical views forward combined with a great song
This song in 2020 just resonates 100x times more
Serj Tankian es mi solista favorito
świetnie to zrobili. o głosie Serja nawet nie wspomnę :)
milame gia poli fantasia sta clips tou!!!
hope to hear more inspirational songs with deep messages from you again serj loved you in elect the dead keep it up man
I love this video...I LOVE SERJ!!! :D ....He is the best
This is (by far) my favorite music video ever. I used to play with army men all the ime when I was a toddler and pre-teen, so I love how they animated it all. The song is great too; it's my favorite on the CD. Keep up the good work, Serj!
Serj's a lyrical genius, he actually speaks his mind through his songs, and his videos are powerful, perfectly made, real and yes, he got it all.
THis song along with video give me the chills.
Any song that Serj's voice is on is just magic.
Serj makes his music to where you can interpret it anyway you want. That's why he's so epic
This is the best music ever. I have never heard anything near as good as this. Both what you put out and what you and SOAD put out is amazing. GOOD WORK! Peace with the turrks!
Yes man well said wat a fucking tune this is
an exceptionally powerful video and song.
Love Serg, love this song and love my lexapro
& System of a Down.. Serj.. You found your way into History! Great bands!
this video really hit me.
im on anti-depressants for my anxiety disorder; i take mine for my fear of life in general. and every day i feel better but there are some days i feel like im being pumped up with happy pills and spoken too like a crazy person.
the imigary of the pills dancing into the mouth of the depressed character with his skull cracked open and brain exposed really spoke to me and made me sick to my stomach.
beautiful work.
I hope youre doing better these days :(.
THANK YOU
Damn
Gotta be one of serj‘s best songs
Man I didn't understand this when I was younger, but watching the video now with a more critical eye I'm pretty blown away
Svaka cast braco jermeni
Znaju oni dobro napravit
First verse of the song gives me goosebumps just because it feels so powerful
Guys... I feel old. I'll see you in another 14 years. I'll be 45. Holy shit!
"People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises."
Lenin
muy buena cancion expectacular mejor voz del mundo serj tankian
Temasoo!!! En 2019 lo sigo escuchandoo!!!
"Antidepressants controlling tools of your system! Making life more tolerable! Making life more tolerable!"
That! That is the message!
these people are telling the truth
2017: the United States Congress cut taxes for corporations, forty percent cut; the song's message is alive.
Such a great person!
your a really unique man you! thanks for the brilliant music
205 are the unthinking minority
and while the greed consume us we become the ones to be consumed
i adore this video
This guy is a legend. ✊🏽
You know a lot of shit is wrong with the world. You can think about it or even counter-act, but you will not achieve a victory. I just realised how much easier it is to join the decieved, and search for your personal happiness without the desire to change or create something timeless.
+Sándor Tamás You can never truly rejoin the deceived.
Sadly, the only way to even feign ignorance is with self medication or anti depressants.
Honestly i think that serj uses "antidepressants" to implicitly refer to THINGS (just to make an exemple) that make you forget about the shit that happens in the world. For exemple people who work 20 years to buy the biggest car of the neighbor (still an exemple)
Ditto. I've always thought it refers to _all_ things that have that effect as well.
"Warner Bros. Records"
yes.
Dario Tibaldi
Dario Tibaldi authorities told me to see doctor who is trained in sheep school lol if I had demons I would get to Peru and ayahuasca would end that. Haha
Serj Tankian is one of the greatest people and singers in the world!
i cant stop singing this in my mind
Making life more tolerable, making life more dollarable ~
john dolmayan (SOAD) did the drums for this song.
sounds so good!
This was my favorite song from this album
Cracks me up to see poeple saying "this sounds like system of the down". No shit ? Maybe it cause the lead is serj in which who is from system. This is his solo records. Come on people so some common sence..
Nicko Bello true that
Unfortunately Andrew Procter!
+Andrew Proctor What's more ironic(but also a little sad) is how people say things like this after listening to song with a title such as this... Backward Brains Syndrome?? I would like to think there is hope, at least to a certain degree of possibility. WAKE UP AMERICA!!! It's time for us all to change so that we can all flourish...together.
+Andrew Proctor In 2008 I thought "this pretty reminds me of system of down" ... and I got to know the truth now in 2015. we all make mistakes :)
+Ľuboš Mudrák totally agree it's just not the same as him being with system u know ? it is different
System should play this one live
A system concert where they mix Serj’s solo songs and Scars on Broadway songs into a set list and peform them together would be fire. A shame that’s probably not happening
YOU are IDEAL and GENIUS and have ANGEL voice and YOU ARE GOD
I remember when I was 15 years old and this song was on polish tv. That was first time when i fall in love in song which i heard for the first time. Still in love
man if someone didn't know they were an old band you might think they were talking about present day T_T
It's fascinating how Serj's message against Corporacracy is being absorbed into the very system he criticizes, and becomes "commodified", a product ready for consumption in a market based economy. He is featured on UA-cam(owned by Google corporation) and is apparently sponsored by Warner Brothers, also a corporate entity. I love Serj's music and the powerful messages he emphasizes with such passionate words, but it feels that the message is being drowned in the overall noise of the "system", Media's overwhelming output of information that desensitizes us to the point that we lose the ability to discern between a very important message and an empty blabber, therefore we all hear the message but no one does anything about it.
+Freemind Thinker Not really. You could understand it :) and we are the ones that decide to do something about the issue or not.
+fanzeldadaniel Yes, but we need a certain critical mass of people to "get" the message in order to make it truly effective. How do you turn "Unthinking majority" into a "thinking" one? How do you take the power from the Elite class who are in charge of all the important decisions and give it to the masses? How do you teach the people to see the difference between something valuable and garbage? And all this needs to be accomplished while Mass Media is perfecting the ways of dumbing down the population
Freemind Thinker I really don't know. The only thing that I can tell you is that people revolt when they're literally starving; from the French revolution to the worker's protests, that majority did something because they didn't have nothing to eat or they ate very poorly. Right now is a different picture we are quite comfortable with our current situation even when there are few individuals that are disgustingly rich and we live our lives in debt but hey at least we are not starving... perhaps If we try to show to other people, friends and family the wrongs of our world they could reflect that's my take on the issue.
+Freemind Thinker It' fascinating how Freemind Thinker thinks he is Freemind Thinker while he is economic illerate, spoiled by the free market, which he hates.
***** "This anarchist"
>Ancom
>Anarchist
Lol. "It's not a government when we do it"
"defined as extreme left, "
>2015
>Left and right wing
"Being in favor or just playing along with capitalism != in favor of corporate owned governments and invading arab countries"
Corporatism =/= capitalism. True capitalism is possible only in anarchocapitalism. You can't say "there is free market" when the government has monopoly on violence. Currently we have more or less enslaved market.
Read Rothbard.
I'm 11 and I've loved Serj for quite a while, I hope that one day Serj will come to Uk and I can see him live, it would be pretty damn amazing. Anyway Serj you're bloody amazing
I loveeeee so much your voice serj 💋💋
The stop motion video reminds me of Tool :) Prison Sex and Sober.
I can see the relation to Tool's "Right In Two" mv... personally, that one's always been and still will be my favorite, simply due to the sheer complexity and lengthy elaboration of the system as a whole. This definitely seems to fit right up the same alley, though, considering the message being relayed. Props on the music video, Serj!
P.S. you kinda sound like A System of a Down (unless it actually is the same singer), which is a compliment btw because I like them too haha
You probably know this 4 years later but yeah Serj is the main vocalist for SOAD
Qu'est ce que c'est bon..Enorme morçeau!!!
how was i not aware of this till now! lve it!
This is the most prog metal song ive heard
1:02 THAT'S NOT HOW TANKS WORK.
ARTIRRARY!!!
I could be wrong, but I don't think those are real tanks...
LilServie YOU'RE NOT A REAL TANK.
Luis Marrero *TRIGGERED*
HORROOOAORRRARRRRR
Love the video
Nice toys You have there Serj ... ;D ... wonderful song !!!
Serj Tankian is denuncing much more than war itself.
In the title (not only in the title though, in the refrain too), he clearly denunces occidental peoples which don't have any opinion in politics, so they can be manipulated as hell ; and that's why there's atrocities like war.
I want SOAD to play this live :D
I’m afraid that’s not possible
@@SE7EN306 serj did sing it live but SOAD playing his own songs yah it's not possible
SUPERB !!
Love the stop motion.
Fucking love this song ❤
Looks like a high school thing I would do
Honestly my favorite
Very nice song !!
The unthinking majority just elected a new president in USA so maybe we should teach and educate our children on Empty walls and other important subjects. So we have future not next war on our hands
kazenagi21 sounds like a sore loser 2 me
Worst part is, looking at the pop vote, an unthinking MINORITY somehow elected the Cheeto. What fucked system we have.
Kazenagi21- too late brother, America is doomed. 1984
kazenagi21 No they were thinking. They know about global technocracy
It sounds like you hate free speech. Trump may a douch, but given the alternative, I think the outcome is satisfactory.
Happy 10th Birthday Unthinking Majority!!!
Posted 7th of August 2017 at 00:02.
Feels like I posted this comment yesterday...
Love u
no me canso se escuchar a este man.....
I watched this clip x amount of times and its the first time i notice that suspiciously Turkish flag