Starting off, the cover set the stage and made me very sad, because it's very true. The whole album and its commentary is incredibly bleak and real. I'm not sure if I should dance, cry my eyes out, refuse to cry my eyes out, write a manifesto, become as cynical and disillusioned and plan to overtake the world, or become as cynical and disillusioned and fade into history like this band. Then I googled(well, perplexitied) and saw that their guitarist and apparently the creative core of the group had produced records for RHCP. This is a spectacular album in terms of political commentary. Probably I’ll not listen to this again, but I'm happy I was introduced to this!