I think this song is about a society in which people have become part of a system that is like a big machine to which people must conform and make themselves compatible. It's about the post-humanist reign of alienation, apparatchiks, capitalism, competition, consumerism, efficiency, gleichschaltung, means dominating purpose, panem et circenses, & the abolishment of creativity, humanism, individualism, purpose, re-creative leisure-time, & self-determination. It's about a world in which everyone just walks on, without paying heed to their surroundings, with a lack of real communication or even the ability to communicate: A world in which people just rattle on like street-cars in their grooves, punctual but dull.
I think this song is about a society in which people have become part of a system that is like a big machine to which people must conform and make themselves compatible. It's about the post-humanist reign of alienation, apparatchiks, capitalism, competition, consumerism, efficiency, gleichschaltung, means dominating purpose, panem et circenses, & the abolishment of creativity, humanism, individualism, purpose, re-creative leisure-time, & self-determination. It's about a world in which everyone just walks on, without paying heed to their surroundings, with a lack of real communication or even the ability to communicate: A world in which people just rattle on like street-cars in their grooves, punctual but dull.