McGrath, I don't agree with every single word of your last contribution (I would say that the mural is closer to 1938 than 2008 in context, for example). I agree with the sense of it and it is clear that considerable thought went into it and I think it is very well written.

The mural is to my mind dreadfully dated and simplistic in addressing the problems we have in this era, and ignores the inevitability of 'globalism' as does the current inhabitant of the White House. The anti-semitic question is to my mind more diversionary than topical.

This will probably be irrelevant to everyone but me, nevertheless its musical so I'm gonna go ahead:
Peter Gabriel and Genesis came out with a song "Land of Confusion" and it was used in a video back in 1986. It's one of my favorites. They used materials from a great satiric television revue of the time: "Spitting Image".

The same song was covered with a more musically 'metal' edge by Disturbed in 2005. It was a creditable piece of work but I think it mostly lost the message. It took a frank view of an intractable problem based on human nature and simplified it to evil fat bankerdom. It also lacked the imagination and great humor of the original.

That is making the intractable problems damn near impossible to even address.
I think that vid