Bombtrack
I’m surprised to see that no news sites or anywhere else that I can tell have connected the dots on the source of Luke Helder’s writing. The letter he left
in the mailboxes is massively plaigarized from Rage Against the Machine’s 1992 release. The lyrics for “bombtrack” talk about “deleting” people, and Luke talks
about “dismissing” people. The most obvious parallels, however, come from the song
starting out with “Fools follow rules when the set commands ya”, with a chorus of “Just victims of the
in-house drive-by; They say jump, you say how high”. Sort of a nice symmetry between “in-house drive-by” and the
few days that the nation sat in their armchairs watching his drive-by progress on our television screens. As for the
remainder of the letter that can’t be tied directly to song lyrics, I am still trying to decide whether he watched
“The Matrix” or “Fight Club” too many times (or maybe both).
It’s funny that a guy who claims to be liberating the population from mass media enslavement seems to have been
incapable of producing a thought that didn’t come directly from the mass media he consumed.