Many have mistaken this song as a "fuck everything" ballad. But the protagonist is a Christian mock-up.
The Christian proclaims;
"I hate the hater, I'd rape the raper."
This is no diffrent than proclaiming "I love." But Manson's mockery serves to expose the dark paradox - the Christian doesn't "love," he hates the hate. So how can one observe love as a rule and not hate? To love only love means to hate half of a duality, thus the idea is empty. It is an ignorant philosophy. It is much like purifying a stream of its impurities; you take its character away and you still have only served to also purify the impurities of water. Christinaity serves to due the same to society. The perfect Christians would hold nothing worldy of any value; they would be a shell of nature holding only the unnatural; thus mindless sheep without any real (worldy) character. Not to get Nietzsche on you, but this makes Christinaity a dangerous form nihilism.
AND the line is "I am the animal who will not be himself." IT IS NOT "I am NOT the animal who will not be himself." Again, someone has mistaken the context of the song. It's a mockery. A Christian is an animal who repels the carnal or the animalistic. That is another paradox. Do you know what something that tries not to be something is? An attempt at nothing. Again, Christianity as a nihilism rears.
The chorus is the true Manson. He serves as the enlightened one, constrasting against the verses in which he mocks an unenlightened one. He "doesn't have to choose a side." He knows that love/hate and good/evil is a supernatural concept and to choose a side is actually impossible. Change hate and love to repel and attract and you have natural counterparts. But to say that repelling is evil and attracting is good is impossible because attracting can mean repelling to another entity. It is in the eye of the beholder.
Many have mistaken this song as a "fuck everything" ballad. But the protagonist is a Christian mock-up.
The Christian proclaims;
"I hate the hater, I'd rape the raper."
This is no diffrent than proclaiming "I love." But Manson's mockery serves to expose the dark paradox - the Christian doesn't "love," he hates the hate. So how can one observe love as a rule and not hate? To love only love means to hate half of a duality, thus the idea is empty. It is an ignorant philosophy. It is much like purifying a stream of its impurities; you take its character away and you still have only served to also purify the impurities of water. Christinaity serves to due the same to society. The perfect Christians would hold nothing worldy of any value; they would be a shell of nature holding only the unnatural; thus mindless sheep without any real (worldy) character. Not to get Nietzsche on you, but this makes Christinaity a dangerous form nihilism.
AND the line is "I am the animal who will not be himself." IT IS NOT "I am NOT the animal who will not be himself." Again, someone has mistaken the context of the song. It's a mockery. A Christian is an animal who repels the carnal or the animalistic. That is another paradox. Do you know what something that tries not to be something is? An attempt at nothing. Again, Christianity as a nihilism rears.
The chorus is the true Manson. He serves as the enlightened one, constrasting against the verses in which he mocks an unenlightened one. He "doesn't have to choose a side." He knows that love/hate and good/evil is a supernatural concept and to choose a side is actually impossible. Change hate and love to repel and attract and you have natural counterparts. But to say that repelling is evil and attracting is good is impossible because attracting can mean repelling to another entity. It is in the eye of the beholder.
@Urinalysis "Do you know what something that tries not to be something is? An attempt at nothing"
@Urinalysis "Do you know what something that tries not to be something is? An attempt at nothing"
So... if a person attempts not to be a murderer, that's an attempt at nothing? They should just go ahead and murder?
So... if a person attempts not to be a murderer, that's an attempt at nothing? They should just go ahead and murder?
Nihilism: it doesn't mean what you think it means.
Nihilism: it doesn't mean what you think it means.