The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” defines our generation in a political and economic way. Over the past decade America has fallen victim to one scheme after another. First off we Had been led to believe that we can spend as much money as we want with no consequence. Even our government believed this and some still do. We continue to spend ridiculous amounts of money harming our economy and our very way of life.
Even the recession was caused by this feeling. People, spurred on by banks, purchased houses that they couldn’t afford. This went on for a while with no problems, but when the housing bubble popped our economy was doomed. We had been led into a trap of our own devices. Greed and a feeling of near invincibility pushed us to a point of self-destruction. And what did we do to react to this disaster? We went and spent more and more money we did not have. The chorus of the song is “Won’t get fooled again” and this is the lesson we must learn from recent events. We have to stop giving in to political devices and greed if we want to be successful. They sing, “And the morals that they worship will be gone/ And the men who spurred us on/ Sit in judgment of all wrong.” This again represents the tone of our nation.
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