With at least equal sophistication [to De Do Do Do De Da Da Da], “Spirits in the Material World,” from the 1981 album Ghost in the Machine, was based on the writings of Arthur Koestler. Koestler’s text concerned the mind-body split, the relation between reason and imagination, and the potential for our higher logical functions to be overpowered by hate and anger. That is, to be swayed by the more primitive core brain structures enfolded from our earlier periods of “troubled evolution.” (Those primitive structures are the “ghost in the machine,” invisibly shaping our use of reason and language.) Attempted political, constitutional and revolutionary solutions to our world’s problems will ever run aground on that underlying penchant for destruction.
[From Rock & Holy Rollers: The Spiritual Beliefs of Chart-Topping Rock Stars in Their Lives and Lyrics by Geoffrey D. Falk.]
With at least equal sophistication [to De Do Do Do De Da Da Da], “Spirits in the Material World,” from the 1981 album Ghost in the Machine, was based on the writings of Arthur Koestler. Koestler’s text concerned the mind-body split, the relation between reason and imagination, and the potential for our higher logical functions to be overpowered by hate and anger. That is, to be swayed by the more primitive core brain structures enfolded from our earlier periods of “troubled evolution.” (Those primitive structures are the “ghost in the machine,” invisibly shaping our use of reason and language.) Attempted political, constitutional and revolutionary solutions to our world’s problems will ever run aground on that underlying penchant for destruction.
[From Rock & Holy Rollers: The Spiritual Beliefs of Chart-Topping Rock Stars in Their Lives and Lyrics by Geoffrey D. Falk.]
we are the ghost in the machine and those primitive structures are being exploited to distract us and seperate our bodies from our souls
we are the ghost in the machine and those primitive structures are being exploited to distract us and seperate our bodies from our souls