Never been a fan of conceptual art until TooL came around... Persons translate deep songs like Pushit the way it suits them, and everyone will find 'the right meaning' and 'the right way to interprete' lyrics in the right way to fit into his/her own mental 'device', due to their own preconceptions, frustrations, meanings etc.
For me, personally, this song has been the best introduction to the methods of Jung's theory of 'Reflective Cycology' :-)... which refers to 'phenomenom' of projecting your own virtues and lacks onto another person, making him/her reflection of yourself - just like Jesus said about 'thorn in someone's eye becomes a stick in your own eye' (or something like that, I'm sorry for this paraphrase). What it means is that what might bother you with one person is actually something that you might bother another person with.
...like someone pointed previously about the inner struggle over/against oneself, I thought for Maynard that he addressed this song to himself : 'who am I to judge and strike you down' refers to what I previously wrote on Jung's theory... The thing is that I was the one addressing this song to myself, and if I hadn't learned important lesson on this projecting onto other persons, I quess I would become schyzophrenic, to say at least. ;-)
Seriously, TooL did one hell of a job here and I'm glad that I really don't know what this song means for them... However, I recommend you all to find more on Jung, because I'm too lazy to write down here all the concepts on above mentioned, and it might be useful to someone who might, instead, post something originally on this topic.
Never been a fan of conceptual art until TooL came around... Persons translate deep songs like Pushit the way it suits them, and everyone will find 'the right meaning' and 'the right way to interprete' lyrics in the right way to fit into his/her own mental 'device', due to their own preconceptions, frustrations, meanings etc. For me, personally, this song has been the best introduction to the methods of Jung's theory of 'Reflective Cycology' :-)... which refers to 'phenomenom' of projecting your own virtues and lacks onto another person, making him/her reflection of yourself - just like Jesus said about 'thorn in someone's eye becomes a stick in your own eye' (or something like that, I'm sorry for this paraphrase). What it means is that what might bother you with one person is actually something that you might bother another person with. ...like someone pointed previously about the inner struggle over/against oneself, I thought for Maynard that he addressed this song to himself : 'who am I to judge and strike you down' refers to what I previously wrote on Jung's theory... The thing is that I was the one addressing this song to myself, and if I hadn't learned important lesson on this projecting onto other persons, I quess I would become schyzophrenic, to say at least. ;-) Seriously, TooL did one hell of a job here and I'm glad that I really don't know what this song means for them... However, I recommend you all to find more on Jung, because I'm too lazy to write down here all the concepts on above mentioned, and it might be useful to someone who might, instead, post something originally on this topic.