To me, this song is about religion, uncertainty, control, corporate slavery and a kind of spiritual atheism. He talks about the "con" which is this hollow, artificial, unsustainable, modern western life. How there is no 'home' or community. Just loneliness from our false, us vs. them, selfish ignorant materialism. The loneliness from sitting home alone drinking beer watching sports. Keeping yourself ignorant. He talks about 'zombies' expecting so little. The fact that so few here know what the 'particle wave duality' is is saddening. (In quantum physics matter is a wave and particle at the same time. The collapse of the wave function is also very interesting.) That explains the lyrics, Everything's half apart, what can it mean?, and 'Everything's half a dream, how can it be?'. I believe the zombies also represent the indoctrinated religious people and unaware corporate slaves. They have such a small impoverished narrow view of life and miss the awesomeness of science and the true beauty of nature. Which explains, 'How can we ever evolve When our gods are so primitive? They destroy the film'. The 'film' the stage, our lives... Religion is a meme virus. 'They destroy our hope for peace, hope for love, oh'. 'Love breaks the machine' This speaks to abandoning religion and false divisions among us. Love also breaks the machine of capitalism and the it's sister the military industrial complex as well as bigotry and racism. 'I know that we'll never survive This little victory' Talks about how people often rise up against injustice, usually the systems of indoctrination resume control of their minds and they eventually forget. 'How can we ever evolve When our gods are so primitive?' One last thought here, spirituality's true realization is not the mediocre mythologies of religion and gods judging us. It is much more vast and astonishing. The universe isn't a jealous space person who cares if you go to church or follow ridiculous rituals, it doesn't tell you to hate gays or people who don't follow your particular mythological space fairytale. Once again, the religions of today are primitive, they keep human kind from reaching it's true potential. They just tell you to keep your head down and wait for the afterlife... The time on earth is short and relatively unimportant compared to the eternity in hell or heaven you may face. I urge anyone reading this to reconsider what benefits you have really gained with religion.
I leave you with this quote by Steven Weinberg,
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
To me, this song is about religion, uncertainty, control, corporate slavery and a kind of spiritual atheism. He talks about the "con" which is this hollow, artificial, unsustainable, modern western life. How there is no 'home' or community. Just loneliness from our false, us vs. them, selfish ignorant materialism. The loneliness from sitting home alone drinking beer watching sports. Keeping yourself ignorant. He talks about 'zombies' expecting so little. The fact that so few here know what the 'particle wave duality' is is saddening. (In quantum physics matter is a wave and particle at the same time. The collapse of the wave function is also very interesting.) That explains the lyrics, Everything's half apart, what can it mean?, and 'Everything's half a dream, how can it be?'. I believe the zombies also represent the indoctrinated religious people and unaware corporate slaves. They have such a small impoverished narrow view of life and miss the awesomeness of science and the true beauty of nature. Which explains, 'How can we ever evolve When our gods are so primitive? They destroy the film'. The 'film' the stage, our lives... Religion is a meme virus. 'They destroy our hope for peace, hope for love, oh'. 'Love breaks the machine' This speaks to abandoning religion and false divisions among us. Love also breaks the machine of capitalism and the it's sister the military industrial complex as well as bigotry and racism. 'I know that we'll never survive This little victory' Talks about how people often rise up against injustice, usually the systems of indoctrination resume control of their minds and they eventually forget. 'How can we ever evolve When our gods are so primitive?' One last thought here, spirituality's true realization is not the mediocre mythologies of religion and gods judging us. It is much more vast and astonishing. The universe isn't a jealous space person who cares if you go to church or follow ridiculous rituals, it doesn't tell you to hate gays or people who don't follow your particular mythological space fairytale. Once again, the religions of today are primitive, they keep human kind from reaching it's true potential. They just tell you to keep your head down and wait for the afterlife... The time on earth is short and relatively unimportant compared to the eternity in hell or heaven you may face. I urge anyone reading this to reconsider what benefits you have really gained with religion.
I leave you with this quote by Steven Weinberg, “Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
Peace and love to all!