Fold - Forever War (Official Music Video)

This is the official music video for Fold’s anti-war single Forever War.
Released January 26, 2024
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WARNING: this music video contains documentary footage of dehumanising propaganda, extreme brutality and cruelty in war, including images of genocide. Viewer discretion is advised.

Aided by Mint Press CEO Mnar Adley’s brilliant journalism and the voices of other luminary thinkers, Fold are calling out the military-industrial complex for enabling forever wars in the name of profit, just as Dwight Eisenhower warned us about in 1961. Defence contractors routinely lobby governments for more and longer wars on behalf of companies like Lockheed Martin and RTX (especially in the US) in order to sell more weapons and generate greater profits, even when it means abetting genocide and other horrific atrocities. Fold believe this is the elephant in the room and that the only way to stop war is to take the profit out of war.

Fold wanted to respond as best they could with empathy and reason to the horrors unfolding in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere. Songwriter & Fold founder Seth also channelled his own personal history into this track: the ancestral trauma of losing half of his extended family in the Holocaust, living in New York on 9/11 and in London during the 2005 bombings. It is intended to evoke sensations of war.

Mnar Adley’s narrative takes centre stage in the verses with additional passages from Alice Walker and Lorraine Hansberry. The Forever War hook itself is voiced by an expanse of figures including Kurt Vonnegut, Noam Chomsky, Douglas Adams, bell hooks, Mike Ruppert and more. The effect is like a council of elders reaching a solemn consensus. Angela Davis makes a subtle cameo doubling the phrase ‘military-industrial complex.’ All of these people have had something crucial to say on the subject of war.

“Perpetual war, endless war, or a forever war, is a lasting state of war with no clear conditions that would lead to its conclusion.

Forever wars can occur in order to keep money flowing into institutions, such as the military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC). Thus, forever wars can serve as domestic political engines, as policy makers promote policies of continuing and expanding wars.”
— Wikipedia

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”
— Smedley D. Butler (retired US Marine Corps Major General), 1935