I think people are complicating the song. I feel that its merely about how soulless modern society has become, yet how no one will accept to place life back into in the name of progress.
It could also be about coping with extreme sadness. Perhaps the song's protagonist has lost his way with extreme emotion, and feels perhaps a postmodern way of thinking would be able to appease his emotions. It can obviously be seen that he is not fully convinved of this new way of thinking, and is still suffering from alot of inner conflict because of it.
Freud, you're basically saying the same thing in your first paragraph as everyone else... yes, the lyrics are simple and satirise post-modern thinking. It's basically asserting that postmodernist ideas are wooden, with no convition, full of contradiction (which I believe them to be; it's a very astute choice of lyrics).
Freud, you're basically saying the same thing in your first paragraph as everyone else... yes, the lyrics are simple and satirise post-modern thinking. It's basically asserting that postmodernist ideas are wooden, with no convition, full of contradiction (which I believe them to be; it's a very astute choice of lyrics).
These ideas sell repetition in the sense of an undemanding familiarity, and sell reduction. Look up reductionism; it's a method of deducing the meaning (or lack of) behind something by breaking it down into smaller simpler constituent parts. It often fails if applied to things like human behaviour, consciousness, self-organisation...
These ideas sell repetition in the sense of an undemanding familiarity, and sell reduction. Look up reductionism; it's a method of deducing the meaning (or lack of) behind something by breaking it down into smaller simpler constituent parts. It often fails if applied to things like human behaviour, consciousness, self-organisation or any system with 'emergent' properties. Rigid postmodernist thinking does not like systems with emergent properties.
I think people are complicating the song. I feel that its merely about how soulless modern society has become, yet how no one will accept to place life back into in the name of progress.
It could also be about coping with extreme sadness. Perhaps the song's protagonist has lost his way with extreme emotion, and feels perhaps a postmodern way of thinking would be able to appease his emotions. It can obviously be seen that he is not fully convinved of this new way of thinking, and is still suffering from alot of inner conflict because of it.
Freud, you're basically saying the same thing in your first paragraph as everyone else... yes, the lyrics are simple and satirise post-modern thinking. It's basically asserting that postmodernist ideas are wooden, with no convition, full of contradiction (which I believe them to be; it's a very astute choice of lyrics).
Freud, you're basically saying the same thing in your first paragraph as everyone else... yes, the lyrics are simple and satirise post-modern thinking. It's basically asserting that postmodernist ideas are wooden, with no convition, full of contradiction (which I believe them to be; it's a very astute choice of lyrics).
These ideas sell repetition in the sense of an undemanding familiarity, and sell reduction. Look up reductionism; it's a method of deducing the meaning (or lack of) behind something by breaking it down into smaller simpler constituent parts. It often fails if applied to things like human behaviour, consciousness, self-organisation...
These ideas sell repetition in the sense of an undemanding familiarity, and sell reduction. Look up reductionism; it's a method of deducing the meaning (or lack of) behind something by breaking it down into smaller simpler constituent parts. It often fails if applied to things like human behaviour, consciousness, self-organisation or any system with 'emergent' properties. Rigid postmodernist thinking does not like systems with emergent properties.