For me, the Space, and the huge and eternal (and yet tiny and transient) ball that is our planet - are closely linked to our selves – to our skins, cells, blood, eyes. When I contemplate (as I often do) the “bigger picture”, it always unfolds in my mind as an enormous fractal, from quarks up to molecules and cells and brain processes and birds and societies up to the huge forests and cities – all is a part of a single system. Very finely tuned, and infinitely, painfully beautiful. So the radio talk with Atlantis in the beginning makes a lot of sense here. This small endeavor – space exploration – is the single most important thing that our species can do. Because what else matters, actually? And to do this right, we need peace and collaboration. And peace and collaboration bring with them freedom and love and music – and yes, sex and caring and love to all aspects and forms of life; and ultimate synergy between a spirit (emotion) and mind (technology) and body (health and senses).
So, this song kind of brings it all together; by talking about “animals” (which we are) in the most sublime terms (sacred, sacrosanct, hopeful, conscious) – it highlights the paradox that underlies it all – that we are at once “just” animals, and at the same time we are conscious, and that we cherish beauty (“pretty”). Really, deep down it’s not a paradox at all. Being an animal, contrary to how the word MIGHT be perceived, is NOT actually humiliating in any way. This song is about this connection of all levels.
What a great, atmospheric song.
For me, the Space, and the huge and eternal (and yet tiny and transient) ball that is our planet - are closely linked to our selves – to our skins, cells, blood, eyes. When I contemplate (as I often do) the “bigger picture”, it always unfolds in my mind as an enormous fractal, from quarks up to molecules and cells and brain processes and birds and societies up to the huge forests and cities – all is a part of a single system. Very finely tuned, and infinitely, painfully beautiful. So the radio talk with Atlantis in the beginning makes a lot of sense here. This small endeavor – space exploration – is the single most important thing that our species can do. Because what else matters, actually? And to do this right, we need peace and collaboration. And peace and collaboration bring with them freedom and love and music – and yes, sex and caring and love to all aspects and forms of life; and ultimate synergy between a spirit (emotion) and mind (technology) and body (health and senses).
So, this song kind of brings it all together; by talking about “animals” (which we are) in the most sublime terms (sacred, sacrosanct, hopeful, conscious) – it highlights the paradox that underlies it all – that we are at once “just” animals, and at the same time we are conscious, and that we cherish beauty (“pretty”). Really, deep down it’s not a paradox at all. Being an animal, contrary to how the word MIGHT be perceived, is NOT actually humiliating in any way. This song is about this connection of all levels.