What we are really going to lose this election.

I went to see an international cover band last night at the Corner Hotel to write a review for a local street press. What I couldn't divulge in the accompanying text was my realisation that crowds really do match the music they are attracted to; in this case essentially cheesy and uninteresting, wanting to have a good time but for the most part disconnected. And it's true about all types of music if you really think about it, there is a strong correlation between yes, dress sense and music, but beyond the simplicity of 'dress', the entire existence of these people can in a sense be generalised; what are we searching for, yearning for, standing up for, standing up against? And in that sense music can create a vacuum into which people uniformly are sucked into a life of okayness; which I promise you they are not happy about, they just don't know any better. It's like a loss of their essentiality, and this leaves them lost and tired. 
What are we looking for then? In all honesty what we are truly looking for is the essence of our nature, our tribal ways and kinship; and it is the kinds of music that can more accurately provide these that produce the kinds of humans that are more "in touch" and more radiant in the spotlight of life. People criticise hippies for their dreadlocks and dirty clothes, but admire and photograph the eclectic-ness of tribal peoples elsewhere in an arrogant exchange of money for dignity. Hippies are merely attempting to connect to the tribal roots of Western Civilisation; more closely replicating what theirs and our ancestors would have looked like thousands of years ago. The Western world has aggressively ripped this connection between our soul and roots and we see more and more every day examples of this disconnect creating further distance from freedoms and the earth. 
The music of expression, whether it is Psy-Trance, Psych, Punk, Rock'n'Roll, Garage, Roots just to name but a few, that causes us to look within, explore, challenge, rescue, rebuild, identify, embrace, defy, and create is the future of Western Civilisation. If only we would look more closely and see the true loss of soul in the manifestation of compromising beings in powerful places; we could work to reconnect the soul with the skin and prevent an inevitable decline in the soul and skin of this planet.