yeah this song is about the BBC specifically, back when the UK was run by a very socially conservative government. But the meta message is when power uses media to control thought and opinion, when it dictates what "proper thought" is, and uses media to reinforce it, to control people, its wrong. Wrong on a level of being unholy, alienating people who don't think what the government thinks they should. Turning people against each other because they all trust the hand that feeds. Calling it treason. Whatever you want to call it, the system, civilization, the hand that feeds, Elvis is railing against it. The BBC, and also the way of living that man has developed that relies on controlling another man. Or if you need a visual, dulling our humanity so they can build their castles made of men.
yeah this song is about the BBC specifically, back when the UK was run by a very socially conservative government. But the meta message is when power uses media to control thought and opinion, when it dictates what "proper thought" is, and uses media to reinforce it, to control people, its wrong. Wrong on a level of being unholy, alienating people who don't think what the government thinks they should. Turning people against each other because they all trust the hand that feeds. Calling it treason. Whatever you want to call it, the system, civilization, the hand that feeds, Elvis is railing against it. The BBC, and also the way of living that man has developed that relies on controlling another man. Or if you need a visual, dulling our humanity so they can build their castles made of men.
radio, radio