Tryants have used religion as a means to gain power and authority.

Hitler used Christian religious-imagery in order to captive the minds of the German population who sympathized with such ideas.

Boys (Summertime Love) was a song released in 1987 by Italian pop-singer Sabrina Salerno.

Could be also referring to the Second-Summer of Love which occurred between 1988-1989 which in Britain symbolized “the rise of acid house music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed MDMA-fuelled rave parties”

And also referring to the fact that Eso was born in the 80s

People don’t have really have any objective meaning or purpose in their life so they resort to wishful thinking in order to satisfy their hunger for meaning whether it’s through religion, spirituality, etc.

The wishful thinking could be alluding to the idea of destiny: the concept that we are here in this world for a specific purpose; to achieve a particular per-determined goal.

Seth is saying that people need to create Gods in order to relieve their loneliness in the universe, sort of similar to children who invent imaginary friends in order to relieve their own loneliness and lack of belonging.

So instead of man being made in the image of God (as written in Genesis 1:27) man actually made God in his own image.

This is a point that prominent atheists like Dawkins, Dennet, Hitchens and Harris make against religion.

Conservative parties, led mostly by the rich, tend to argue that lowering taxes will improve your economical situation. They focus on the idea that lower taxes will leave you with more money yourself. Ali does not approve of this idea and belives taxes and welfare are better and more stable solutions.

The wealthy elite (the 1%) have the majority of the cash, while the rest of society gets enticed by their incredibly low incomes in comparison.

Out-sourcing jobs overseas, although being of benefit to the companies due to increase in overall profit; it really hurts the workers who are usually layed off as a result. This heavily affects both lower and middle-class citizens alike and is a catalyst to increasing unemployment rates.

America is largely run by corporations for corporations, their influence on policies is largely due their efforts to fund millions and millions of dollars through political lobbying in order to get what they want.

Wolf-Pac is an organization which aims to get money out of politics.

He relies heavily on concerts to put food on the table, otherwise it’s back to relying on welfare.

This line right here is the reason why we should support independent underground artists who need the money to survive.

Although Ali knows that going to college is not an impossible feat, it’s still not a viable option given his circumstances.

You don’t have access to the high-paying degrees due to not being apart of the academic elite: being top of your class or going to the most prestigious high-schools.