Bellew

Perhaps it's wrong to color a person's perception about lyrics like this and it robs them of the experience of understanding what it's about. On the other hand, judging from the number of posts for DIMD and the nature of the subject matter, someone might as well do it.

I think the meaning behind unDeveloped lies between the external ideas and the individual thinking them.

It's paying attention to the intrapersonal function of I guess "truth seeking" sort of behaviors. This sort of digging maybe, and the effects it has on the digger. The benefits they receive from such activity and why it's rewarding. So a person builds sources to the truth and in doing so I guess experiences some change in mood for example.

Essentially, there's the idea of a person who pays particular attention to the "negatives" in life, they focus in on the problems of the world and what societal issues demand serious attention and what's going wrong with existence.

Then there's the person who views the glass as half full. Or more specifically, there's as much positive as negative and that's the way the world is. Things aren't actually that bad you're just attending to the bad things, you have to notice the positives as well. That would be the idea.

Point being, the first person sees the truth of existence and the second person has evened everything out in order to feel good about how awful reality actually is. The second person has a layer falsity to their existence that the first individual is missing. Basically like, the truth is dark and painful. And the worse you feel about something the more true it probably is.

This part may be reaching, but...

The floating ghost of numbers could refer to a mass of people, a particular segment of the population. Perhaps people who, in the past may have been angry and active in trying to change the world as it is. But the sheen has faded from this active involvement that was more present in the past, and from the blood of this specter the New Age feeds. And this New Age mentality is overshadowing public outrage and anger towards the state of America, and in fact, Earth itself. In other words, people perhaps have begun just looking inward to feel better about the world instead of actually doing anything to change it. And it does appear that the term "new age" likely, at least partially, refers to the typical "New Age" one would think of.

The final part is where the individual searches for the ability to accept how terrible things are and feel OK from a "naked view" as in one that is still truthful and not some sort of delusion. So like knowing the truth, whether there's a "construct" or not, and still being OK and having the ability to accept it. You get the feeling that any "evening out" at all was pretty much rejected though, especially if all the tracks are supposed to be in some sort of sequence.

And anyone who has been through a variety of mind states, perhaps using meditation (or some derivative which is just really the same thing) can maybe understand how when you transition from one to the other there's an evening of things that takes place and upsetting circumstances in the world become less of a concern. I guess you could even say the same about using drugs but that's less permanent I guess. Or even participating in some kind of psychotherapy or something.

But anyways, the idea being that when you're in this better mental state and things seem more even and positive, it's actually less true. The truth is more so on the darker side of things where you aren't experiencing that "evening" of problems. It would make sense with the whole "new age" thing in my opinion. And is a unique experience.

And finally here's to the point of maybe what unDeveloped is all about...

It's a situation where the more you learn about the truth of reality and the more you dig into what's really going on, the worse you feel, the more powerless you feel, and the closer you get to jumping off a bridge. You think about it and focus on it more and more and you just feel worse and worse. And before you know it, you become just like the problems that upset you so much before or at least closer to those problems. You're a total mess because you were so focused on getting closer to the truth of reality, from a powerless position (really all positions would be powerless in this scenario). And so people say, "well, what good is learning these truths if it makes you feel so bad?" And that statement itself is (from what I've explained) the reason things are so bad in the first place... because people are running away from what's really going on. They're sticking their heads in the sand.

So how do you get out? The more you learn the more fucked up you get. But if you try to feel better you're running from the truth which is the thing that upsets you so much about other people and perpetuates the world's problems. Somewhere in this maze may lie a degree of conscientiousness that is maladaptive to our planet, but any less of it would make you just another jerk-off who doesn't give a fuck, right? You're in a maze, but is there a way out? Guess that's for the individual to decide.

To be sure though...

Ideas like these and this bear the marks of the state from which they come.

And personally I'm not so sure that having an inflamed brain brings one closer to the truth than experiencing the feelings over thoughts (but that comes later I suppose, and I don't mean it as "the blue"). Perhaps thinking is as much a problem as not thinking?

Drugs/Meditation aren't the "evening" referred to here maybe. More so about changing of thought processes, like psychotherapy. As in a person who has this more negative world view is encouraged through CBT or other psychotherapy to change thought processes or counterproductive behaviors. Because that's really when you would "even" everything using thoughts. This sort of changing of thought processes is deemed less true by our author and therefore is problematic.

Other two things are different, particularly the second.

So you try to feel better without doing the work to alter these thought processes? "Reducing darkened forces, from a naked view?"

I'd say it's those mental impulses/feelings, those originators of behaviors/ideas within the brain that create these darkened forces (definitely not psycho-dynamic past shit though, to not confuse). They perhaps exist before the thoughts do (thoughts like these lyrics). And I guess the idea is that if you change the thoughts, the brain state follows? A bit backwards. But that's what psychotherapy says, goes both ways. Like if you feel bad and start smiling you'll begin to feel better just because you have a smile plastered on your face? Not sure. Their's is more legit of course.

Hard to say what's true when you're the only one who can interpret it for you. Has to go through you.

And like I said, maybe thought itself has to largely go away (or at least quiet down) for some people to escape "the blue." Just electricity in the brain?

After all, "thinking positive" was seemingly rejected by our author... didn't take. Can't be the only one. Seemed too much like plastered smile beauty queen idea? Not sure I'd try to reduce those darkened forces from a naked view if I were in his position though. Seems difficult.