| Propagandhi – Tertium Non Datur (née Repairing The Damaged Beard Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I particularly enjoy the lines "... until all they can see are rigid dichotomies of the sacred and the profane. Of salvation or shame with fuck all in between. The human impulse to explain hijacked: a controlled flight into terrain to ensure no passenger ever makes any connection between the proscription of mystery and their malaise." What I take from this is that religion seeks to turn issues into black and white distinctions. Either something is sacred, and therefor favorable, or profane and heretical. The second part of the quote deals with how religion exploits the human need to seek answers, and instead of simply allowing people to be in awe of the cosmic mystery that is existence, it feeds them a bullshit story full of superstition and strict doctrine, which in turn is the cause of a lot of human suffering, and "malaise". |
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| Propagandhi – Potemkin City Limits Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yes, it's "to the realm of God". | |
| Propagandhi – Because They Can't Speak For Themselves Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's also on the I Spy album Perversity is Spreading... It's About Time, except it's referred to as "Murder". | |
| Propagandhi – Apparently I'm a PC Fascist Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is about people who are generally leftist, pro-human rights, anti-fascist, and "otherwise brilliant and productive" people refuse to acknowledge the connection between those issues and the issue of animal rights and speciesm. "they ignore the issue and deny the relation between our consumption and brutality." It's also about how these people often mock vegetarians, and make jokes at their expense. "So you can go ahead and roll your eyes and marginalize me/socially penalize me: play on my insecurities." As a vegan I can attest to the fact that the majority of the people (even people within the punk/anarchist community) are often quite defensive when you start talking about animal rights. It's a pretty common misconception that vegans are weak, girly, etc. and when faced with the issue of veganism, meat eaters often resort to mockery as a means of ignoring the issue at hand and therefore relieving themselves of the guilt that one feels when they realize that consuming meat is directly supporting murder. The message: speciesm is no different from any other form of prejudice, and if we allow ourselves to view animals as lesser beings and can justify their murders, then it's not much harder to do the same for women, homosexuals, and people of another race. |
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| Propagandhi – Supporting Caste Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Firesetsboy you are correct. An article in the Globe and Mail states that "The title track imagines mainstream history as a film that "exalts only the pornography of force ... as we, the two-bits, are ushered on and swiftly off the stage". The song's terse rhetoric resones with the cover reproduction of The Triumph of Mischief, a huge canvas by Cree artist Kent Monkman that burlesques both the standard history of Canadian settlement and the pictorial codes of 19th-century frontier art." The line about "the pornography of force" seems especially meaningful. As was mentioned, this is clearly referring to the idea that recorded history is written by the victors, the people in power, the "murders and psychopaths". But I believe that using the term "pornography" to describe violence is especially apt. History only seems to remember major events, mostly violent events such as war, acts of terrorism, murders, assassinations, etc, and these events are often exploited and fetishized in much the same manner as sex, and pornography. |
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