| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I like what you're saying. I think the "higgs boson blues" might refer to the "double edged sword" you refer to, in that new ideas/knowledge or what ever always seems to come at some terrible cost. Maybe in this he is imagining that the CERN experiment failed and destroyed the world, the most extreme example of this... | |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Someone below mentions that AIDS may have come from humans eating primates... there may be something to that. Missionaries came to the "savages" to teach them "civilised" ways, only to inadvertently spread smallpox and the flu etc, killing millions. Also, with the reference to MLK and Robert Johnson, both of those men were brilliant/visionary, their greatest achievements also eventually turned against them. Maybe this is where the higgs boson reference comes in. The large hadron collider (the experiment used to discover the higgs boson) was rumoured in popular culture to risk creating a black hole and hence destroy the planet. So maybe he is using the "higgs boson" as a metaphore for how humans always seek new knowledge/artistic creation/growth and development of culture (thinking in new ways like MLK, creating amazing music like Robert Johnson, or bringing civilisation to the savages) but may be unaware of the potential catastrophic price we might pay either personally or as a culture for those things. |
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