Collidoskope

Perhaps it's wrong to color a person's perception about lyrics like this and it robs them of the experience of understanding what it's about. On the other hand, judging from the number of posts for DIMD and the nature of the subject matter, someone might as well do it.

I think the meaning behind unDeveloped lies between the external ideas and the individual thinking them.

Kaleidoscope. Collide-o-scope. Collides, cope.

It's the world view, way of looking at the world, a distorted reality, like looking into a kaleidoscope. Is it the author who's looking through it? Or is the collidoskope the false filter that others look through in their perception of a false world.

Everything that fueled the hope in others for change has died, or everything that fueled the hope in the author has died.

Also, the voices at the beginning, like some twisted greeting welcoming you to a false reality or at least a blurred, obscured view of reality.

Kaleidoscopes I guess are a circle of mirrors. Could connect it to the smoke and mirrors of this reality.

Retrospection leans forward? Like your view of the past is somehow morphed or colored by the present or the anticipated future. As in you marginalize actions or thoughts in the past and change them to fit the present time period or something. I also thought of the word "lien" which is I guess some way of securing the payment of a debt, I don't fully understand what it is though. You could perhaps apply it to the foreclosure situation.

But yea, one way or another, everything within people's means is property of this Collidoskope.

Or more specifically, within this construct of reality, everything that a person can access is controlled. Every piece of reality that people have access to is property and under the creation of the Collidoskope.

Or the resources they would need to create some sort of change are not under their control, but perhaps under the control of entities that would discourage this sort of change.

And so the unfolding of some events seem systematic. The collective indifference seems systematic. A collaboration toward dystopia. Even perhaps suggesting it's happening on a collective unconscious scale. It's a dramatic meeting of the minds. Could also go back to the idea about a group of people who would've done something to change things in the past have now been rendered useless by this Collidoskope. Though it's unclear if the collidoskope would've been around in the past or not, or if it's more of a current situation.

Excavate the bloody chills, it's seeping through the cracks with the... is it line or lie or life not sure. But either way one explanation could be that when you start digging into the darkness of the world, the truth is seeping through the cracks. Like the false reality construct is there but there are perhaps small cracks in it that truth is leaking out of. So the truth is there, it's seeping out of this.

And then it's asking, where did everyone go and when did they call to say they were leaving. I guess this goes back to the lack of resistance to what's happening in America and of course also the world today. All the people who would stand up and give some sort of resistance have left and they never called to say they were going.

It really goes to a massive theme on unDeveloped that there is some loss of consciousness occurring where people are receding further and further into their shells. unDeveloping, becoming husks, almost robotic.

It's either, "Just like..." or "Dislike the age of animal, This archetype of life."

I think this might go to the following idea...

Essentially, when you think of farm animals and the lives they live you pick up on the fact that they don't understand what's going on. They don't understand that they're being bred in order to be used as food for another organism. They just sort of eat their corn (or sometimes grass) and before they know it they hanging upside down dead.

So is it possible that humans are operating with a similar ignorance? Is it possible that just like how farm animals don't understand what their lives are truly about, neither do we? Maybe we aren't being used as food for something else, but is there a similar lack of understanding? Again, the message of the false reality.

So the "age of animal" is more like "the life of an animal?"

Anyways, our reality is an archetype of life. Archetype can be used to mean "an original that has been imitated." So like we're living in some imitation of what life should really be. False reality.

Or you could look at it as people looking down on the days when we didn't have technology and all this development when we were more like animals. But yet we're just as, or more unDeveloped than we were back then, like we're psychologically moving backwards.

Author once again asks where everyone went, where all the consciousness is going.

I don't know about the "Lifeless substance to devour." But I'll just say it's the people that are lifeless? And they're just spending all their life devouring like hungry hippos or something. They're totally lifeless mindless consumers. And I guess it fills their future (distant).

Or it could be that the construct or "cancer" mentioned on "101" is itself the lifeless substance that's devouring us and is eating away and filling up our future.

Not sure about the last word of the "From the acid of the (?)" line.

So this game plays itself out in 3-D visions of life.

I'll also put forth the following idea...

That your brain chemistry and general biology essentially dictate what you can and can't do in the world. Like if you want to maintain certain mood states and a certain quality of life you have to adhere to basic rules of life. Just an obvious recognition of the limits that each person is under in this reality. Limits created by the biology of your brain specifically. Perhaps a biology that will be seriously altered in the future or attached to machines in order to escape such limitations.

I think these limitations are relevant to some of the ideas proposed with unDeveloped.

Maybe when you defy such limitations without a real means to escape them you create problems for yourself that would otherwise not be there had you just played by the rules that your brain has set for you. If you try to step outside of these personal rules set by biology bad things happen eventually.

Like for every drug high you have to come down. And if you didn't, the high would be meaningless and wouldn't feel the same. Because your brain is going to dictate how those drugs work... how they effect you.

I think this idea just corresponds to one general interpretation of the "game" that plays itself out in 3-D visions of life.

Welcome to collidoskope Everything that fueled the hope has died

Retrospection forward gleans Everything within your means is mine

it seems like something systematic au jus-matic meetings of the mice

Excavate the bloody chills Its seeping through the cracks within the (lie/line)

Where did everyone go When did anyone call (Dis/Just) like the age of animal This archetype(arc a type?) of life Where did everyone go Lifeless substance to devour That fills inside the distant From the asset of the (ow/out)

"The game plays itself out in every decision of life." (once or twice it says "light" istead of "life")

In the end, if you take nothing else from unDeveloped, maybe the most important thing is the idea of misinformation.

For the type of person who is deeply concerned with congruence in the world, the type of person who seeks out some sort of truth to stand on in order to understand existence, this misinformation can be very problematic.

And it's the fact that it's difficult, sometimes impossible to use science to inquire into the hidden intentions or meanings of other people's actions. Even more difficult is when groups of people are piled up into institutions and you attempt to reach firm conclusions about those situations. Then imagine how that difficulty can be magnified even further when you're examining these situations from your living room and on top of that you have a pretty weak basic education you're relying on.

So you're deeply concerned with finding the truth, but the truth you're looking for is perhaps impossible to determine and you're looking for it from a poor vantage point (making it even harder to determine).

But misinformation flows in both directions. On one hand, maybe you can't accept the "Official Version" that is presented to you. And on the other hand, the "Official Version" has been altered and obscured because it's assumed that you can't accept it. Or more specially, everyone obscures the truth in their heads, almost subconsciously, before they disseminate it to the outside world.

There's a difference between a person searching for social truths from their couch and a person measuring the natural world using science. But one is so much more boring than the other, and seems so much less pertinent, right?

And so people approximate the truth as best they can from their position in the world, and alter the "Official Version" as much as they have to in order to feel OK about it from both the dissemination angle and the acceptance one.

So misinformation just keeps piling up, just piles of shit that keep growing and distorting reality. The Internet is a good example, obviously. And from both ends, in many cases, the people who put forth this false information think they are doing someone a great service, they think they're protecting something or promoting something. But it's all just bullshit.

It's not the case that truth doesn't exist either, that you can't possibly trust any information. It's just that, with the gross excess of misinformation, you grow distrusting of any information you're presented with which is problematic.

Finally...

Beware of those who claim to possess ultimate truths about the world. But also beware of those who question the ground they walk on.

And it's not that you should stop crying about all the poor decisions seen, just have to stay away from the alliance between that and your insides. Also knowing that it's not necessary to devise a thesis of everything and make constant connections between all situations. You're most likely stumbling in the dark anyways.

You have to wonder if the conspiracy theory type of attitude that shows its scales throughout unDeveloped is perhaps some construct designed in order to be able to accept the state of the world.

Like instead of thinking up a God who is the creator of the many benign occurrences in the world, you create a Devil who is responsible for all the problems.

Because if the world is controlled by the long-reaching omnipresent tentacles of this nefarious construct then working to change things becomes less of a concern.

Instead, absolutely all you can possibly do is "wake up" to what's going on around you. And until everyone "wakes up" nothing can be done.

So once again, you retreat into your shell where all you can possibly pay attention to is your own existence because this conspirational power is too great for you to combat alone. Other people need to wake up for change to occur. A process that involves the vague ideas of "expanding your consciousness" or "understanding the truth." That change will occur from this "awakening" alone. Or in the provocation of some large-scale civil unrest that never happens.

The inaction of such people is interesting considering their views, if they hold them to be absolute truth. You'll see lone wolf type of stuff, but nothing organized that actually moves closer to doing anything positive. Of course we've seen conspiracy theories turn into genocide in the past, but you can't paint them all as being the same in terms of ideas. The more modern ideas typically don't carry any serious combined action it seems.

No doubt there's evidence for organized conspiracy, but you have to question supposed truths when they carry so much weight. What's wrong with a worldview that doesn't incorporate those sorts of ideas?

Difficult to justify inaction, cognitive inequities when it comes to understanding why certain events have occurred. That is, the official version that you witness is too hard to take in and it doesn't have the flow of a nice narrative, too jagged, too many things you don't fully understand and the dots are difficult to connect.

Moreover, there's the idea of having access to sort of hidden knowledge, a separator for you against a massive cross-section of the population (the majority of people) who are in the dark about such issues.

These heavy belief systems are extremely problematic and, I think, exist because they serve specific intrapersonal functions.

But do I only suggest this because I can't accept the truth of what's really going on?

And then somehow, though the faces look different and the words change position, you can't distinguish your discussion with the fundamentalist christian from your discussion with the ardent conspiracy theorist. It's like the same song, just a different verse.

Belief systems are designed to serve specific intrapersonal functions. If you end up in a situation where a belief system isn't necessary to you, truth becomes less meaningful because you're only concerned with the truths of specific actions you're involved in. But critical thinking and inquisitiveness are really something to be celebrated, but when you take the easy road to pursue those interests and are bombarded with misinformation (often not deliberately), you're going to have a hard time truly getting to the bottom of anything.

It's a strange world we live in where people who claim to be most connected to the concrete truth of the world are perhaps the same ones who could be hiding from it the most. Even stranger when you've been there.

But so many problems... No way to solve 'em. Have to run them through your machine, change into something else more comfortable. Or just put your head in the sand.

No matter what you do though, you won't be able to stare directly into this metaphorical sun for very long. Because if you do, the last meal you consume... will probably taste like gun metal. Or something to that effect.