In a sharp, two-minute burst, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die (TWIABP) return with their first release of 2025: the urgent and unapologetic “Beware The Centrist.” Nearly a year after their June 2024 single “Kersed,” the new track delivers a pointed critique of political apathy—taking aim at those who remain passive in the face of rising injustice and hate.
The band shares, “Oppressors call rebels terrorists. Terror is a last resort tactic when speech, boycott, and protests are crushed and declawed. There are breaking points when average citizens are forced to embrace chaos and destruction, a reason to cause damage for a cause or a name to be remembered. When the dominant strategy commoditizes and annihilates us, it’s appropriate to fight back with violence.”
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They continue, “Look past the arrogance that we are safe in the US from what happens in other countries and what has happened throughout history. We have less and less time every day to change the world, as fascism cements itself into our infrastructure. Take a hammer to the world.
Sure, post on social media, spread awareness, raise funds to aid the beaten, but do not let that be the end of the struggle. They will try and often succeed in taking away our words, banning our books, dispersing our rallies. They will encourage in-fighting amongst us. Do not pretend that the way things are are the way they must be.
Learn from Willem Van Spronsen, Adam Curtis, and David Graeber. If your coworker reports you for your beliefs, destroy his tools and spoil his food.”
Watch the accompanying performance video below.
