I really like mortiis, have done for years.
It's ok for people to say "he looks like a troll in a nappy" (which he doesn't anymore) but loads of you who say that usually preach about how image is meaningless and how picked on you are get out the violins.
Anyway..this song is pretty obvious, marshland is a metaphor for his life, he is trapped in a morass which he hasn't got the power to escape from.
"Nothing that I say or do, Matters to the
Big machine."
I think that part alludes to Gilbert Ryle's 'Ghost in the machine' theory. The mind is a machine that according to Descartes theory actually makes our being, mind and body one "I think therefore I am".
Whereas Ryle's theory was more a derrogatory term for that dualism and argued that they were seperate and worked in conjuction but were not really one.
Thats why the references to the machine in the song makes me believe it is his mind.
Or, it could be a metaphor for the world.
I really like mortiis, have done for years. It's ok for people to say "he looks like a troll in a nappy" (which he doesn't anymore) but loads of you who say that usually preach about how image is meaningless and how picked on you are get out the violins.
Anyway..this song is pretty obvious, marshland is a metaphor for his life, he is trapped in a morass which he hasn't got the power to escape from.
"Nothing that I say or do, Matters to the Big machine." I think that part alludes to Gilbert Ryle's 'Ghost in the machine' theory. The mind is a machine that according to Descartes theory actually makes our being, mind and body one "I think therefore I am". Whereas Ryle's theory was more a derrogatory term for that dualism and argued that they were seperate and worked in conjuction but were not really one. Thats why the references to the machine in the song makes me believe it is his mind. Or, it could be a metaphor for the world.