Catastrophist

I think this has to do with self destructive mindset of the world as a whole. This insatiable appetite for violence and the cycle of damage that is left in its wake. It's made the population almost numb to it all coupled with a feeling of hopelessness.

I think the song is Political for the most part. I will break it down: "Consume and feed, degenerate. We damage just to liberate." This is saying we consume and feed I think that has a dual meaning. One we are inherently consumers, we are bred to be from the time we were born with marketing and corporations trying to penetrate our minds. I think this is talking about current times how money is power and that power is a form of "Liberation." So basically corporations and politicians.

"Bought and sold before we could even breathe." Since before we were born, the government and corporations have been literally plotting to make us into slaves to consumerism. They essentially own us and control us through messages, advertisements, things like Baby Einstein, etc. I feel like we're falling "A lifeline just out of our reach, I feel our collapsing, The arrogant numb to our needs." We are basically fucked when it comes to idolizing money and power. We are literally are literally arrogant and numb to our own needs, we are slaves to consumerism.

"You're a catastrophe, The one who's come to devastate, Catastrophist, You stole our innocence, You're a catastrophe, The one who's come to devastate, Catastrophist, We never had a chance, Never had a chance." This means that the people in charge of shit basically Corporations, Government, Politicians, are literally Catastrophists and a Catastrophy because what they are perpetuating is catastrophic. We become slaves to the almighty dollar, we become consumers making the rich even richer, slaves to the objects that we give mystical powers to (think cell phones and things like that).

We believe have to have these things in our lives to be fulfilled. The entire plot is to make us that way so the rich continue to get richer. The corporations profit off the slaves who are those who are not in the elite class. They stole our innocence as soon as we came out of the womb and they literally groom us from the very beginning of lives for consumerism, kind of like how a pedophile grooms children into sexual situations with them. The bringer of our devastation, "You stole our innocence, Bringer of our devastation, It's you, catastrophist." This is sort of just a repeat.

Basically those who are catastrophists (if we are talking Karl Marx, that would be the Bourgeoise who are the rich business owners) have stolen our innocence by perverting consumerism and grooming us." So in a nutshell the song is about us becoming slaves to the almighty dollar by being nothing but consumers and that plan was in place before we were even born and we never even had a chance to escape it because that was already sealed. It's about greed, power, and the collapse of our middle class which can easily be seen in the statistics. The 1% own over half the wealth in the country with the middle class being squeezed down into the lower classes. I am pretty certain that is what Trivium is trying to get at with these lyrics.