Personnaly I don't think BR had religon specifically in mind when they wrote this song. I think they were reffering to conformity in general. I think this song is saying that people go thru their lives without seeing through the bullshit that the government and society feed them on a daily basis and that these people should use their "inner logic" in order to sort out their own path instead of doing what they are told. In the corus he is saying how useing your logic is not always a comforting thing because u see that the world is not a perfect little place and u start to notice how truly fucked up things are (evil and deception). The final verse i believe is a denouncement of the military and that it is simply a government institution designed to install a sense of fear and conformity in the young people so that they can be molded easyer by the rich and powerful (opulent). Finnaly I take the chanting of "no equality.." to mean that there is no respect for liberal minded logical thought in todays society and that progress is vilified and denounced as unamerican. Of course that's just my take on the song. Either way BR kicks ass and is one of the most talented and innfluential punk bands ever and this song certainly does rock.
Personnaly I don't think BR had religon specifically in mind when they wrote this song. I think they were reffering to conformity in general. I think this song is saying that people go thru their lives without seeing through the bullshit that the government and society feed them on a daily basis and that these people should use their "inner logic" in order to sort out their own path instead of doing what they are told. In the corus he is saying how useing your logic is not always a comforting thing because u see that the world is not a perfect little place and u start to notice how truly fucked up things are (evil and deception). The final verse i believe is a denouncement of the military and that it is simply a government institution designed to install a sense of fear and conformity in the young people so that they can be molded easyer by the rich and powerful (opulent). Finnaly I take the chanting of "no equality.." to mean that there is no respect for liberal minded logical thought in todays society and that progress is vilified and denounced as unamerican. Of course that's just my take on the song. Either way BR kicks ass and is one of the most talented and innfluential punk bands ever and this song certainly does rock.