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http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm (link to the cited text) |
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| The Shins – One By One All Day Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'd have to disagree with you fisheatsteel; I'm quite certain that religion is one of the more dominant themes of this song, this album, and The Shins in general. I'm not going to back these claims up with abstract interpretation, but rather, cold facts: The lyric/album title "Oh, Inverted World," is a direct reference to Karl Marx, specifically his Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, his first noteworthy deliberation, which contains many of Marx's more famous claims, e.g. religion as the opiate of the masses, etc. In the introduction to the critique, Marx attempts to redefine religious criticism by postulating the following idea: "...man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man — state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an *inverted world*. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification." The Shins, it seems, are not fans of religion in general: (the following is speculation) Many of the album's songs and others in the band's body of work seem to allude to this "inverted world" idea, as well as Marxism in general (So Says I) and disillusionment with religion (Saint Simon). |
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