iyah may

This is my rendition of John Lennon's original 'Working Class Hero'. I feel Working Class Hero is a critique of how institutions shape people to comply in schools, workplaces, media, government etc. Decades later, the same dynamics are still playing out through tech monopolies, political theatre and manufactured division. It’s relevant because the power structures he pointed to never went away. If anything, this message is even more relevant now. In the early 1900s, John Rockefeller donated hundreds of millions of dollars into reshaping a new education system. The local, creative, community learning was replaced with school bells, rows of desks, rigid grades and memorisation. A system built for efficiency, not imagination. Instead of cultivating creativity or independent thought, the system was built to create predictable, compliant workers who could fit into factory style structures. Frederick T. Gates, Rockefeller's top advisor said "We shall not try to make these people …