| Meshuggah – Rational Gaze Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is exactly the process I went through. I at first thought it was an opus to rationality. But then I became familiar with the assumptions inherent to science and became convinced through introspection and reading on the subject that science provides incomplete but useful truths rather than painting an accurate picture of the universe. With this new way of viewing the world, the meaning you described came into the picture. It's clear that this song is describing serial processing in a negative light, the line "Everything examined. Separated, one thing at a time. The harder we stare the more complete the disintegration" makes it clear that we're distorting the picture by breaking it apart. I don't think Meshuggah is calling for a return to blind religion, but more of a focus on the wholeness of reality. Not looking at it as though it can be broken apart and completely understood, but rather that the stuff of existence lies in the experience, the whole. That we need to have some focus on the gestalt and realize the map isn't the territory. I think this interpretation fits well with Meshuggah's existentialism. |
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