and i guess this song could be interpreted many diffrent ways.
could be that the white man idk messed with the animals basiclly killed them off the same way we did ourselves. or monkeys could be like slang for someone black or something, idk sounds raciest but thats just another thought considering they use the word white man.
@christopherblazek "The white man" is what the Native Americans called the European settlers and early American colonists and frontiersmen who slowly but surely encroached on & swindled them out of their land, killed their game, leveled their forests, and wiped them out or otherwise banished them to reservations, giving them alcohol with which they poisoned themselves. Some realized what was happening and they did try to fight back, but without Western technology and being organized, they were doomed. The metaphor of the monkeys dying high up in the trees from quaaludes the exploiters gave them is especially strong. Now if...
@christopherblazek "The white man" is what the Native Americans called the European settlers and early American colonists and frontiersmen who slowly but surely encroached on & swindled them out of their land, killed their game, leveled their forests, and wiped them out or otherwise banished them to reservations, giving them alcohol with which they poisoned themselves. Some realized what was happening and they did try to fight back, but without Western technology and being organized, they were doomed. The metaphor of the monkeys dying high up in the trees from quaaludes the exploiters gave them is especially strong. Now if only we'd learn these lessons, because with corporate technocracy and their ai tools, the monkeys are US!
uh... To parter
and i guess this song could be interpreted many diffrent ways. could be that the white man idk messed with the animals basiclly killed them off the same way we did ourselves. or monkeys could be like slang for someone black or something, idk sounds raciest but thats just another thought considering they use the word white man.
@christopherblazek "The white man" is what the Native Americans called the European settlers and early American colonists and frontiersmen who slowly but surely encroached on & swindled them out of their land, killed their game, leveled their forests, and wiped them out or otherwise banished them to reservations, giving them alcohol with which they poisoned themselves. Some realized what was happening and they did try to fight back, but without Western technology and being organized, they were doomed. The metaphor of the monkeys dying high up in the trees from quaaludes the exploiters gave them is especially strong. Now if...
@christopherblazek "The white man" is what the Native Americans called the European settlers and early American colonists and frontiersmen who slowly but surely encroached on & swindled them out of their land, killed their game, leveled their forests, and wiped them out or otherwise banished them to reservations, giving them alcohol with which they poisoned themselves. Some realized what was happening and they did try to fight back, but without Western technology and being organized, they were doomed. The metaphor of the monkeys dying high up in the trees from quaaludes the exploiters gave them is especially strong. Now if only we'd learn these lessons, because with corporate technocracy and their ai tools, the monkeys are US!