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Honestly,
Why the hell are you standing there,
And what the fuck are you waiting for?
You expectant smile is starting to
Get on my nerves. So tell me now,
If you're such a fucking rationalist,
So ruthlessly atheist,
Why the hell are you a positivist?
It doesn't work. Because honestly,
If you ignore the terminology,
Mainstream political philosophy
Grew out of Christian teleology.
Despite the claims on the packaging,
All the liberals and the communists,
All the people making promises, are
Pigs to the man and their premises are
All the same
Everything is getting worse.
Which hardly comes as a surprise-
No one guaranteed anything else,
So dry your eyes and
Pull yourself together, because
Things will keep on getting worse.
The guys in white will never win, and
I doubt we'll ever heal the world.
But we can begin by
Learning how to deal with
The conflicts that arise between us.
Instead of pretending they'll go away.
It's better to light a candle than to
Fantasize about the sun
Why the hell are you standing there,
And what the fuck are you waiting for?
You expectant smile is starting to
Get on my nerves. So tell me now,
If you're such a fucking rationalist,
So ruthlessly atheist,
Why the hell are you a positivist?
It doesn't work. Because honestly,
If you ignore the terminology,
Mainstream political philosophy
Grew out of Christian teleology.
Despite the claims on the packaging,
All the liberals and the communists,
All the people making promises, are
Pigs to the man and their premises are
All the same
Everything is getting worse.
Which hardly comes as a surprise-
No one guaranteed anything else,
So dry your eyes and
Pull yourself together, because
Things will keep on getting worse.
The guys in white will never win, and
I doubt we'll ever heal the world.
But we can begin by
Learning how to deal with
The conflicts that arise between us.
Instead of pretending they'll go away.
It's better to light a candle than to
Fantasize about the sun
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frank says:
"john grey (on whom much of this song is based) pointed out that posiivism shares an essentially religious bent in that it's teleological, it works towards an end point and assumes progress. the writings of saint-simon and other positivist founders are almost mystic in their faith in science and progress. the assumption that science and technology automatically make things better (or in fact that they're related to the moral or political sphere in any way at all) is bizarre.
so nerr."