I think digital sea is about the dehumanization and loss of individuality created by todays digital age.
The narrator wakes to find himself afloat in the digital sea, instead of in his lovers/friends/families arms. The “God what is it we have done” seems like it could be someone drowning in the digital sea that man has created, i.e. what have we done that now so consumes and drowns us. His voice going to ones and zeroes is a reference to binary, the ‘language’ by which computers think. Descarte is most famous for ‘I think, therefore I am’ I think he is calling himself wrong because, in the digital age, people can think, but the really aren’t, they just float around, or (also possible, and ironic) is that they give themselves internet personalities that think, but aren’t people. Lastly, the siren songs are those of the digital age, which are hard to resist. I wouldn’t view this as a call out against all things digital, but rather against those, who, like the narrator, are ‘tangled in nets’ and are not incapable of setting themselves free, but unwilling because of the strong song of the sirens.
i agree sojurneyman i think it's about how everyone has become more or less the same.. that the love and friendship has faded away into an artificial type world where nothing has the meaning it once did.. this song totally creeps me out haha but it eerieness conveys this meaning of being alone while surrounded by people. which to me brings up the old saying "water water everywhere but not a drop to drink" except in this particular instance the water is a metaphor for the artificial personalities of the people that surround us and that no one has their...
i agree sojurneyman i think it's about how everyone has become more or less the same.. that the love and friendship has faded away into an artificial type world where nothing has the meaning it once did.. this song totally creeps me out haha but it eerieness conveys this meaning of being alone while surrounded by people. which to me brings up the old saying "water water everywhere but not a drop to drink" except in this particular instance the water is a metaphor for the artificial personalities of the people that surround us and that no one has their true individuality... second comment so feel free to critisize :)
I think digital sea is about the dehumanization and loss of individuality created by todays digital age.
The narrator wakes to find himself afloat in the digital sea, instead of in his lovers/friends/families arms. The “God what is it we have done” seems like it could be someone drowning in the digital sea that man has created, i.e. what have we done that now so consumes and drowns us. His voice going to ones and zeroes is a reference to binary, the ‘language’ by which computers think. Descarte is most famous for ‘I think, therefore I am’ I think he is calling himself wrong because, in the digital age, people can think, but the really aren’t, they just float around, or (also possible, and ironic) is that they give themselves internet personalities that think, but aren’t people. Lastly, the siren songs are those of the digital age, which are hard to resist. I wouldn’t view this as a call out against all things digital, but rather against those, who, like the narrator, are ‘tangled in nets’ and are not incapable of setting themselves free, but unwilling because of the strong song of the sirens.
i agree sojurneyman i think it's about how everyone has become more or less the same.. that the love and friendship has faded away into an artificial type world where nothing has the meaning it once did.. this song totally creeps me out haha but it eerieness conveys this meaning of being alone while surrounded by people. which to me brings up the old saying "water water everywhere but not a drop to drink" except in this particular instance the water is a metaphor for the artificial personalities of the people that surround us and that no one has their...
i agree sojurneyman i think it's about how everyone has become more or less the same.. that the love and friendship has faded away into an artificial type world where nothing has the meaning it once did.. this song totally creeps me out haha but it eerieness conveys this meaning of being alone while surrounded by people. which to me brings up the old saying "water water everywhere but not a drop to drink" except in this particular instance the water is a metaphor for the artificial personalities of the people that surround us and that no one has their true individuality... second comment so feel free to critisize :)