There's something about the contrast between what the music sounds like and what the words mean, that captured me here. Also, the universality of modern problems. Listen a little bit without reading the subtitles. Then start reading.
For more info on the choir itself, and others like it, go
here.
Contrast their lives, so vividly described, with the African lives mention in your earlier post:
ReplyDeletehttp://whatdoino-steve.blogspot.com/2006/12/blood-diamonds-give-cow-not-diamond.html
Or with the lives of the poor in our less-socialist country, who can't afford to go the dentist at all:
http://cthealth.server101.com/poll_uninsured_critical_problem.htm
Is it just that many people have a tendency to complain, regardless of their cicumstances? Or is something truly wrong, albeit on a different scale in Finland than in Nigeria?