When System of a Down’s Serj Tankian spoke to Rolling Stone about the current and future state of music for our current issue, he thought globally. Literally. “In my opinion, civilization is over. It’s a dead beast,” he says. “A lot of people I talk to this about equate humanity with civilization, and I laugh, because I think, ‘Well, there were people on this planet before civilization, and yet we’re so addicted to this concept that we think that if civilization is over, we’re over.’ ” For more from Tankian on rock and rebellion, read the full Q&A here.


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