One of the most damning lines, possibly on the entire album, is 'We all love our children'; for me, it trivialises the supposedly sacred insistution of parenthood. It reminds me of something that Philip Slater said, about how 'for the children' is the greatest war-cry - and the greatest justification - for public atrocities. These anxieties that we have for the welfare of our families renders us useless - 'Little people in little houses/ Like maggots, small, blind, and worthless.' We become the self-contained family unit that Richey always abhorred, biologically fertile but mentally castrated.
One of the most damning lines, possibly on the entire album, is 'We all love our children'; for me, it trivialises the supposedly sacred insistution of parenthood. It reminds me of something that Philip Slater said, about how 'for the children' is the greatest war-cry - and the greatest justification - for public atrocities. These anxieties that we have for the welfare of our families renders us useless - 'Little people in little houses/ Like maggots, small, blind, and worthless.' We become the self-contained family unit that Richey always abhorred, biologically fertile but mentally castrated.