Posthuman is a song that tries to make a statement about pop culture through history, literature, and other metaphors.
The statement "God is just a statistic" is a modified version of the statement "sanity is a statistic", which first appeared in George Orwell's 1984. Basically, Manson is trying to say that God (the idea of God) can be manipulated to mean anything just like statistics.
She got eyes like Zapruder
mouth like heroin
The Zapruder film was shows the footage of JFKs assasination. Basically Manson uses the Zapruder as a metaphor for society's fascination with death. The heroin mouth conveys the idea that the media and their words are infectious which causes the masses to take every word they say as truth.
She wants me to be perfect like Kennedy
Showing how Kennedy was martyred after his death. He was seen as the embodiment of the America idea.
Show me the dead stars
All of them sing
The American celebrity is deadened and fake. Although they "sing" in front of the cameras they are "dead" inside.
This is a riot
Religious and clean
The riot is the mass exploitation in the media. The reference to religion being "clean" is a sarcastic statement. Contrarily, he's trying to point out that religion is the exact opposite of clean.
God is a number you cannot count to
He's trying to say that the idea of God is beyond scientific reason.
You are posthuman and hardwired
Basically, the vast majority of Americans are "posthuman" meaning they have died already (in the intellectual and emotional sense). Moreover, they are conditioned to blindly follow whatever they are told like "hardwired" computers.
She's pilgrim and pagan
Softworn and so-cial
This is a stab at the hypocrites who say they are one thing but act like someone else.
In all of her dreams
She's a saint like Jackie-O
Being a saint is an unrealistic idea to have. Therefore, we dream about being perfect like "Jakie-O" (JFK's wife).
"All that glitters is cold, all that glitters is cold."
Obviously, this is a play on the common cliche: "All that glitters aint gold". Manson replaced the word "gold" with "cold" to point out that decadence and materialism is saturated with death but most people are too blind to realize it.
Overall, I didn't like this song too mush but I do like the message it conveys. A lot of the references in this song reemerge on Holy Wood. I think he should have put it on that album instead of Mechanical Animals.
Posthuman is a song that tries to make a statement about pop culture through history, literature, and other metaphors.
The statement "God is just a statistic" is a modified version of the statement "sanity is a statistic", which first appeared in George Orwell's 1984. Basically, Manson is trying to say that God (the idea of God) can be manipulated to mean anything just like statistics.
She got eyes like Zapruder
mouth like heroin
The Zapruder film was shows the footage of JFKs assasination. Basically Manson uses the Zapruder as a metaphor for society's fascination with death. The heroin mouth conveys the idea that the media and their words are infectious which causes the masses to take every word they say as truth.
She wants me to be perfect like Kennedy
Showing how Kennedy was martyred after his death. He was seen as the embodiment of the America idea.
Show me the dead stars All of them sing
The American celebrity is deadened and fake. Although they "sing" in front of the cameras they are "dead" inside.
This is a riot Religious and clean
The riot is the mass exploitation in the media. The reference to religion being "clean" is a sarcastic statement. Contrarily, he's trying to point out that religion is the exact opposite of clean.
God is a number you cannot count to
He's trying to say that the idea of God is beyond scientific reason.
You are posthuman and hardwired
Basically, the vast majority of Americans are "posthuman" meaning they have died already (in the intellectual and emotional sense). Moreover, they are conditioned to blindly follow whatever they are told like "hardwired" computers.
She's pilgrim and pagan Softworn and so-cial
This is a stab at the hypocrites who say they are one thing but act like someone else.
In all of her dreams She's a saint like Jackie-O
Being a saint is an unrealistic idea to have. Therefore, we dream about being perfect like "Jakie-O" (JFK's wife).
"All that glitters is cold, all that glitters is cold."
Obviously, this is a play on the common cliche: "All that glitters aint gold". Manson replaced the word "gold" with "cold" to point out that decadence and materialism is saturated with death but most people are too blind to realize it.
Overall, I didn't like this song too mush but I do like the message it conveys. A lot of the references in this song reemerge on Holy Wood. I think he should have put it on that album instead of Mechanical Animals.