Upsetting a sensitive SYSTEM

This is part two of my special lecture series on the word DIDACTIC!

Here is an example: Ann Coulter: Didactic, John Stewart: Satiric
Which do you prefer?

Here is another example: Rage against the Machine: Didactic
System of a Down: Cathartic.
Which do you prefer.

Thus, I'm obsessing, my favorite band of the moment, is SOAD. Why? Well it always takes time for a band's ouvre to sink in.
These guys came out in 1998 just around the peak of the slew of bands that played "SICK" a subgenre of metal with radical
stylistic changes and extreme lyrics. But what I find very interesting about the Down is that for a band with so many songs "about Heroin" their music is a junkie's worst nightmare. Throw in some traditional Baltic-region influence, a furious attack and moment's of musical humor they shred with furious beauty. The operatic lyrics however describe and mock the floating and dreaming of heroin intoxication and suggest peddling your ass to prolong the experience. The consequences however, are left entirely up to you, have a blast.

To have this message of absurd worldless joy pounded into your skull is incredibly cleansing. You feel like a microbe in a sterile test tube. Impervious to the effects of chemical assault.

I did not quote Chuck Klosterman in this blog entry, so bah!