...The song does not only protest the Vietnam War but expressed the warning to humanity that destruction of society was near. Barry McGuire's song attempted to survey the world's social and political problems. This song helped to establish the idea of protest music as a mainstream dialect. Some people were angered by the seemingly unpatriotic spirit of the song and others simply found McGuire's lyrics a little too much to take entirely seriously. Hardeep Phull, "Everybody Look What's Going Down (1965-1968)," in Story Behind the Protest Song: A Reference Guide to the 50 Songs That Changed the 20th Century (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008),...
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