Firesetsboy you are correct. An article in the Globe and Mail states that
"The title track imagines mainstream history as a film that "exalts only the pornography of force ... as we, the two-bits, are ushered on and swiftly off the stage". The song's terse rhetoric resones with the cover reproduction of The Triumph of Mischief, a huge canvas by Cree artist Kent Monkman that burlesques both the standard history of Canadian settlement and the pictorial codes of 19th-century frontier art."
The line about "the pornography of force" seems especially meaningful. As was mentioned, this is clearly referring to the idea that recorded history is written by the victors, the people in power, the "murders and psychopaths". But I believe that using the term "pornography" to describe violence is especially apt. History only seems to remember major events, mostly violent events such as war, acts of terrorism, murders, assassinations, etc, and these events are often exploited and fetishized in much the same manner as sex, and pornography.
Firesetsboy you are correct. An article in the Globe and Mail states that
"The title track imagines mainstream history as a film that "exalts only the pornography of force ... as we, the two-bits, are ushered on and swiftly off the stage". The song's terse rhetoric resones with the cover reproduction of The Triumph of Mischief, a huge canvas by Cree artist Kent Monkman that burlesques both the standard history of Canadian settlement and the pictorial codes of 19th-century frontier art."
The line about "the pornography of force" seems especially meaningful. As was mentioned, this is clearly referring to the idea that recorded history is written by the victors, the people in power, the "murders and psychopaths". But I believe that using the term "pornography" to describe violence is especially apt. History only seems to remember major events, mostly violent events such as war, acts of terrorism, murders, assassinations, etc, and these events are often exploited and fetishized in much the same manner as sex, and pornography.