> It seems that entertainment can be just as good opium for the masses as
> religion. Forget about the traffic, forget about the lack of efficient
> transportation, affordable health care or being one paycheck from
> homelessness, forget about the war, corruption, crime or lack of prospects -
> just put your earphones on and tune in.
My introduction to radical politics was through the music I was listening to as a teenager (a lot of Radio Schizo type bands :)). The same was the case for many of the other activists I knew at the time. I like to think I would have got there eventually anyway, but who knows?