I think the meaning's a bit more nuanced than "uggg, science bad, me no like" judging by the opening.
"Making two possibilities a reality,
Predicting the future of things we all know,
Fighting off the diseased programming
Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries."
From this section it sounds like science is actually acting against "the diseased programming" of our old dogmas and hatreds, like fundamentalist religion. The "two possibilities" described are utopia and annihilation, the world of the polio vaccine and the world of the atom bomb.
"Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence
letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith."
The ultimate flaw of science is not that it's immoral. It's amoral. It doesn't tell you what to do, just how to do it. It ignores the most "potent element of human existence", which the rest of the song suggests is some sort of New Age pantheistic spirit of love. Believing science without a moral framework will lead to utopia when it could just as easily destroy everything is "letting the reigns go to the unfolding" of man's possibly horrifying destiny, an act of blind faith, not logic.
Good interpretation but I think the "diseased programming" is just about how vaccinations give your body the "programming" of a disease so you can fight it off. There are diseases that had killed so many people for centuries (polio, leprosy, the bubonic plague) that aren't a problem now because of modern medicine. I don't think it has anything to do with fundamentalism or hate because science does nothing to fight that.
Good interpretation but I think the "diseased programming" is just about how vaccinations give your body the "programming" of a disease so you can fight it off. There are diseases that had killed so many people for centuries (polio, leprosy, the bubonic plague) that aren't a problem now because of modern medicine. I don't think it has anything to do with fundamentalism or hate because science does nothing to fight that.
I really like your interpretation, especially the part about "two possibilities"! Have you seen "Paradise or Oblivion"? Search for it on youtube, its about The Venus Project, and it's rather inspiring..
I really like your interpretation, especially the part about "two possibilities"! Have you seen "Paradise or Oblivion"? Search for it on youtube, its about The Venus Project, and it's rather inspiring..
@iceman30 Nailed it bro! Definitely not anti-science, but a warning that science is not the only answer. Also that science can help us and/or destroy us, it's up to us.
@iceman30 Nailed it bro! Definitely not anti-science, but a warning that science is not the only answer. Also that science can help us and/or destroy us, it's up to us.
I think the meaning's a bit more nuanced than "uggg, science bad, me no like" judging by the opening.
"Making two possibilities a reality, Predicting the future of things we all know, Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries."
From this section it sounds like science is actually acting against "the diseased programming" of our old dogmas and hatreds, like fundamentalist religion. The "two possibilities" described are utopia and annihilation, the world of the polio vaccine and the world of the atom bomb.
"Science fails to recognize the single most Potent element of human existence letting the reigns go to the unfolding Is faith, faith, faith, faith."
The ultimate flaw of science is not that it's immoral. It's amoral. It doesn't tell you what to do, just how to do it. It ignores the most "potent element of human existence", which the rest of the song suggests is some sort of New Age pantheistic spirit of love. Believing science without a moral framework will lead to utopia when it could just as easily destroy everything is "letting the reigns go to the unfolding" of man's possibly horrifying destiny, an act of blind faith, not logic.
Nice to finally see the correct answer.
Nice to finally see the correct answer.
Good interpretation but I think the "diseased programming" is just about how vaccinations give your body the "programming" of a disease so you can fight it off. There are diseases that had killed so many people for centuries (polio, leprosy, the bubonic plague) that aren't a problem now because of modern medicine. I don't think it has anything to do with fundamentalism or hate because science does nothing to fight that.
Good interpretation but I think the "diseased programming" is just about how vaccinations give your body the "programming" of a disease so you can fight it off. There are diseases that had killed so many people for centuries (polio, leprosy, the bubonic plague) that aren't a problem now because of modern medicine. I don't think it has anything to do with fundamentalism or hate because science does nothing to fight that.
I really like your interpretation, especially the part about "two possibilities"! Have you seen "Paradise or Oblivion"? Search for it on youtube, its about The Venus Project, and it's rather inspiring..
I really like your interpretation, especially the part about "two possibilities"! Have you seen "Paradise or Oblivion"? Search for it on youtube, its about The Venus Project, and it's rather inspiring..
@iceman30 Nailed it bro! Definitely not anti-science, but a warning that science is not the only answer. Also that science can help us and/or destroy us, it's up to us.
@iceman30 Nailed it bro! Definitely not anti-science, but a warning that science is not the only answer. Also that science can help us and/or destroy us, it's up to us.