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| Bad Religion – The Handshake Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I don't think the end is supposed to be ironic. Bad Religion has always had a history of earnestness and rejection of irony, so I don't know why they inject irony in to this song. If something or someone is going to give, don't let it be yourself. The sentiment here is Nietzschean: the self is political and social thus our public and private relationships are essentially little more than power struggles. |
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| Bear vs. Shark – Buses/No Buses Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Instead of "and move that lever now" I always thought he said "and move that left foot now," cause it kinda sounds like he's describing all of his body parts moving like a dance. |
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| Bear vs. Shark – Campfire Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"The very structure that we lean on"
The kinds of institutions we depend on are destroying the environment. In order to fulfill our needs, we become increasingly dependent on industrial technology and urbanization. |
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| Orchid – To Praise Prothesis Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Remember, too, that critical theory is largely concerned with technology in a post-Marxist tradition. We are losing our freedom, perhaps even our humanity, to consumerist technology. |
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| The Kodan Armada – iwishididnthatemyself.com Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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To clarify, Glendinning's argument is for the rejection of kinds of computer technology that cause "disease and death...," not all computer technology, some of which is beneficial in its application to other technologies that improve the quality of life and society. |
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| The Kodan Armada – iwishididnthatemyself.com Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Glendinning discusses computer technologies in his essay Notes Toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto, specifically how the Neo-Luddites advocate strict regulation or outright rejection of computer technologies which, argues Glendinning, causes "disease and death in their manufacture and use, enhance centralized political power, and remove people from direct experience of life."
We see punk music culture rising to this kind of aesthetic often, in this song as well as in the themes addressed by bands like Ampere, Orchid, Wolves, and others. |
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| Orchid – Tigers Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Aesthetic contemplation is a consumerist activity. Conscious depictions of reality are entertaining, but forgettable, and not art. Intellectuals are just as indoctrinated by industrial consumerist society as everyone else, but what makes them perhaps worse is that they willingly create a crowded marketplace of ideology by participating in the technological apparatus and its mass-production of art and information. They willingly pound dissent into obscurity. This makes dissent more difficult, and the pseudointellectual profit from it. They talk about indoctrination, but do nothing to resist it. They choose to be slaves when they could choose to be free, while others are never offered a choice at all. It is hard to blame people for their small beliefs when a vast industrialized market encourages them to have such things, but I find no difficulty in criticizing a sector of people that recognize the suppression of their individuality and resign to doing nothing about it, but just to contemplate it.
orchidorchidorchid, let's not be nihilistic, either, which is what "truly, everything means nothing" suggests to me. Something may be devoid of a single, clear meaning, but who's to say that its meaning is nothing? Couldn't it have many meanings? |
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