On Saturday evening at the Hollywood Bowl, Conor Oberst had barely begun the third track of "I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning" when he paused to reflect on how little global progress has been made—or, more accurately, how much regression has occurred—in the two decades since the album’s release. "It’s this much later and we’re in a war in the Middle East for the sake of rich people getting richer," he told the crowd, introducing "Old Soul Song (for the New World Order)," a piece originally composed after he attended protests during the Bush administration, likely inspired by the Iraq War