Iron Mountain - Laurie Anderson.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Laurie Anderson
[00:02.036] [Spoken verse 1:]
[00:03.811] It was so strange, the way it happened.
[00:08.294] Almost overnight, there were soldiers everywhere in the city.
[00:12.718] Where there used to be just, maybe, one policeman –
[00:15.539] now there were groups of soldiers with machine guns, and riot gear.
[00:20.648] Almost immediately, it became normal.
[00:24.828] They began to blend in.
[00:26.781] Nobody talked to them but they were everywhere,
[00:30.200] Like ghosts.
[00:32.710] And I thought, "when did that start to happen?"
[00:37.342] [Voiceover:]
[00:37.834] We're trying to prevent it from happening,
[00:39.757] instead of having to deal with it afterwards
[00:42.696] [Spoken verse 2:]
[00:43.195] So homeland security began to breed dogs.
[00:46.330] When the puppies were 13 weeks old they were sent to prisons to be trained by prisoners.
[00:53.402] The smartest dogs were drafted to work with police on patrols.
[00:58.677] And on bomb sniffing squads.
[01:00.732] The homeland security slogan
[01:04.804] "If you see something, say something."
[01:07.293] sounds like something the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein might say.
[01:11.988] And his books are full of cryptic sentences about logic.
[01:14.718] And about how language has the power to actually create the world.
[01:19.956] "If you can't talk about it," he says, "it just doesn't exist."
[01:26.246] [Instrumental]
[01:44.253] [Spoken verse 3:]
[01:46.252] After the "see something, say something" slogan had been around for a while,
[01:50.085] someone from Homeland Security must have had second thoughts
[01:55.453] about asking people to report on each other all the time.
[02:02.819] I would've loved to have been at that Homeland Security PR brainstorming session
[02:07.793] when they decided to add this phrase to their slogan.
[02:13.110] [murmur.]
[02:19.900] There's so many trucks in my neighbourhood now,
[02:22.953] carrying information and data on their way to secure storage areas.
[02:28.285] Iron Mountain started as a network of caves for growing mushrooms.
[02:32.540] And gradually turned into a bomb resistant storage facility for corporate documents.
[02:40.044] After World War II,
[02:41.666] the company began inventing new identities for Jewish immigrants,
[02:46.135] who arrived with nothing.
[02:47.773] No papers – or at most their old library cards.
[02:51.492] So Iron Mountain created all sorts of new documents for them.
[02:56.173] And they became instant Americans.