Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525

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Back in 2014 I mixed scenes from the film Metropolis (1927) with Zager & Evans’ song 'In the Year 2525'.
I still remember the night it all got put together, after so much time thinking about how they fit together.
It worked in the back of my mind for months.
Then one late evening into night time it happened, the cut fitted and the video was made.

Now I still watch Metropolis once every year at least, it's a pioneering film, a great great classic that will be relevant in its cinematography as well as topic as long as humans will watch films.

The year I graduated 1969 And music started going into the trash

This great Song is and has always been in my Top 10 - as I’m in my 7th Decade and survived the Jungles of Vietnam

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Crazy really, if dad hadn't been working and not available we'd have been in a home. He paid the rent and energy bills. That life.

Erinnert mich an einen deutschen Regisseur damals vor über 100 Jahren.. Metropolis eine deutsche stummfilm Premiere.. wonach man damals schon gesehen hat wie die Zukunft aussehen kann mit fliegenden Autos

Jahrgang 1956. Es war ein Privileg in der besten aller Zeiten leben zu dürfen. Die jungen Menschen reden heute von Freiheit und wissen gar nicht wie kaputt und kriminell die Zeit ist. Sie sind blinde Mitläufer und bringen sich selbst um das Wertvollste überhaupt: Freiheit und Solidarität

Thkank you 😂

Such a fair prediction 😢

TOP 20 Dystopian Movies Of All Time & featuring this Song !
"the dystopian future of a society bereft of reason""the utopian dream that became a dystopian nightmare".

2525 is four hundred and ninety, nine years in the future. Jane Fonda your Gona need a ton of makeup to survive that long this side of the grave. Good News is that Svengoolie is already yesterday's newspaper shredded.

If Woman can survive Herself first .

Cinema Propagandizing the Territory of the Glorious Industrial Worker ! Alone seemingly at the Bottom of a marginal existence but the truth is only now harmonizing into a new Reality.

If I may overstate:

The evils that government does are consented to by voting.

Voters are allowed to choose between personalities, not policies, so the inch-by-inch enslavement agenda continues to roll out in front of our faces, yet behind our backs.

We, anarchists, we "consensualists", we "freedomists", we voluntaryists, belabor this point because we are swept up into this immoral/unethical (therfore, in reality, illegitimate) system of coercion, deception, extortion, kidnapping, violence, mass murder, and totalitarianism, without consenting to it.

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
- Daniel Webster

Asking "Without government, who will build the roads?" is like asking "Without slavery, who will pick the cotton?".
Abolitionists of the past were under no obligation to explain how society would work without slavery.
Abolitionists of the present are under no such obligation either. Both of which understand that slavery is wrong and has to end.

The mob called "government" isn't going to abolish itself; it isn't going to stop coercing, extorting, being secretive, murdering, or being the biggest terrorist organization on the planet.

So, the conversation of having systems of voluntary orders lies with those of us who prefer systems of actual consent, which I think is most people, but for the afore mentioned reasons, that notion is hardly in the minds of a majority yet.

It is indeed a colossal challenge for those who choose principle over politics, but one I am obligated by recognizing the ethics/morality of it to undertake, and I'm willing to act on that obligation.

06. 2026.

2026 still love this song❤❤❤

Fifty more years of humanity is a stretch.

Very moving song and the words of these lyrics have some merit and interesting predictions of humanity for sure to think about in this song one of a kind .

This song and lyrics is way ahead of its time and makes one think about life as it is today and what it may be like in our history . Fantastic tune and lyrics to make you think for sure . Thank You

In the year 2525, if man is still alive

If woman can survive, they may find

In the year 3535

Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie

Everything you think, do and say

Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545

You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes

You won't find a thing to chew

Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555

Your arms hangin' limp at your sides

Your legs got nothin' to do

Some machine's doin' that for you

In the year 6565

You won't need no husband, won't need no wife

You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too

From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510

If God's a coming, He oughta make it by then

Maybe He'll look around Himself and say

Guess it's time for the judgment day

In the year 8510

God is gonna shake His mighty head

He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been

Or tear it down, and start again

In the year 9595

I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive

He's taken everything this old earth can give

And he ain't put back nothing

Now it's been ten thousand years

Man has cried a billion tears

For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through

But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight

So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday

In the year 2525, if man is still alive

If woman can survive, they may find

A glimpse of the future especially the bit about taking everything from the earth and not putting anything back

“2026”

Your so natural breaking my hart