Soaring tension and political ineptitude plagued the governments of nations across the globe in the Cold War years of the late 1980's.  Abuse of power ran rampant in this international crisis, throwing the world into panic.  Genesis, the British rock band, did not suppress their views on their world's apparent state of madness.  With the release of their 1986 music video to their song "Land Of Confusion", they display to their fans the bands disapproval of the actions of political leaders in dealing with the world's issues. Distorted puppet caricatures impersonating real life people carry out unruly events throughout the video to exemplify the chaotic world atmosphere created by the ineffective decisions of the world leaders of that day.
     The eerie forms of puppets drive forward the insane plot of the music video.  Not once in the videos five and a half minutes is a real human seen.  The band members, political leaders, and pop-culture icons are all represented by distorted puppets.  The main character of the video is a bumbling caricature of former United States President Ronald Reagan; the video also provides puppet impersonations of other world leaders including Mikhail Gorbachev, Muammar al-Gaddafi, and Margaret Thatcher.  At one point the video travels through a maze of prominent political figure puppet heads as Genesis sings the lyrics, "too many people, making too many problems", highlighting the band's resentment towards the issues formed by the decisions of  the many Cold War era leaders.   The video also incorporates masses of celebrity puppets, including representatives of themselves.  The deranged appearances of these real life people contribute to Genesis' intent by showing the absurdity in the world.
     The video opens with puppets of Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, preparing for bed, with a gorilla on their bed.  From the video's start the idea of lunacy is fixed.  The wildness does not stop with the appearance of a gorilla in the Reagan's bed, as the whole music video is a string of unimaginable events. Exhibiting scenes, such as Ronald Reagan running through the streets dressed as superman and the singer Prince applying ketchup and mustard to his tongue, allows the sense of madness to be apparent.  The crazy events performed by the puppets expresses Genesis' message of the straying of the world from sanity under the guidance of the generation's leaders.
     The disastrous ending of the video warns the audience of their abusive leaders.  In the end Reagan mistakenly presses a button and detonates a nuclear bomb.  This sends a clear message that the actions of government are causing world devastation.  The mockery of the Cold War leaders pushes forward Genesis' purpose of their political message against the abuse of power among world leaders.