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| Meshuggah – Violent Sleep of Reason Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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From childhood we have been conditioned to ignore acts of brutality. When a child gets bullied physically, other kids stand around and watch. When an adult hears about extreme unfairness or acts of brutality in the world, we are just glad it is not us. Typically, we ignore and separate ourselves from the event. We generally only hear about treason against humanitarian ideals when there is a covert economic or political interest. Generally, people will express more outrage about their food being slightly cooked improperly or a WiFi outage compared to genocide happening in another country. Also, People who express outrage by the extreme unfairness of the world have a stereotype of being uncomfortable to be around with. They are labeled as tree hugger, social activists, boring. \nThe sheer magnitude of apathy present in every adult\'s life is insane, but we all deny. Denying has become a practical part of our existence. So we are all asleep in a violent sleep of reason. |
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| Meshuggah – Elastic Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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One of the most hardcore songs because it evokes the sense of doom felt when a human mind becomes aware for the first time of a different reality that is chaotic, unfathomable, and unending. We humans ascribe our own belief systems to reality to make sense of what is going on. We project our life story onto reality. We idolize what is considered normal. All humans do this and the population set of beliefs form what is considered a sane view. In the context of this album, \'sane\' is thinking based on your life experiences and the views of other humans. \'Insane\' in this song is thinking outside this context and these constraints. Insanity is thinking beyond the needs of the human body, beyond this dimensional reality. DMT. Sanity can be thought of a delusion that we are attached too. In the insane state, thoughts resemble static in TV because the thoughts diverge from any conception of human reality. There is a certain experience in which a human becomes aware that thoughts related to any human conceptual grounding constitutes an infinitesimal percentage of reality. A human mind that is aware of this can be said to be elastic. |
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