Perhaps it's wrong to color a person's perception about lyrics like this and it robs them of the experience of understanding what it's about. On the other hand, judging from the number of posts for DIMD and the nature of the subject matter, someone might as well do it.
I think the meaning behind unDeveloped lies between the external ideas and the individual thinking them.
I'd say this track has to do with the Tsunami in Japan but since unDeveloped was released in May and the Tsunami happened in March, I'm not so sure. There's also the "voodoo" lyric, which suggests it could also be about the Haitian earthquake. But Haiti isn't overseas, so again I'm not sure. Either way you're talking about understanding how these situations were handled and what were the circumstances that led up them. You're probably also talking about that capitalized misspelled musical instrument, if you've heard it.
It's also worth mentioning that the number of people killed in Haiti was around 300,000. The number of people killed in Japan was around 15,000 at this point with 5,000 missing.
Also, you could think about how much of a connection there is between scientific research and the social utility that results from it. How much of scientific research actually gives our world something useful that makes it a better place to live in. And how much of that research further degrades our world. But I guess it's all progress right? It's in our DNA they'll say, that's what we do as a species is discover things and build machines, etc etc. And if you're going to allow people to research things that (supposedly) make our world better, you have to allow people to research the things that steadily destroy it.
Makes you wonder about selling a nuclear power plant as waterfront property.
There's also the layer of this track that deals with the individual asking about what's going on that led to such terrible natural disasters. And is it even worth asking / acting?
Also, perhaps there's an element where either the "construct" is watching these awful situations in other countries or it's the American public salivating as they watch such disasters unfold on our various television news networks. Either way there's some laughing going on I think.
But we're such a generous country and we provided aid to these countries during such an awful disaster. I think the "Action, this quick again" lyrics has to be sarcastic because of how slow the US can be to act in such scenarios. Maybe "beating the game" is not dying, in other words surviving as you watch people dead in piles of rubble in other countries and enjoying the fact that you're still alive and not in such an awful country and such an awful situation. In effect, you "beat the game" because you're alive and they're dead.
Though it could also be those will ill intentions who are dealing with the small fishes in order to "beat the game," or more specifically killing the small fishes directly or indirectly. As in systematic depopulation.
There's also the element of deceiving foreign governments about America's true intentions when providing aid, etc.
Perhaps it's wrong to color a person's perception about lyrics like this and it robs them of the experience of understanding what it's about. On the other hand, judging from the number of posts for DIMD and the nature of the subject matter, someone might as well do it.
I think the meaning behind unDeveloped lies between the external ideas and the individual thinking them.
I'd say this track has to do with the Tsunami in Japan but since unDeveloped was released in May and the Tsunami happened in March, I'm not so sure. There's also the "voodoo" lyric, which suggests it could also be about the Haitian earthquake. But Haiti isn't overseas, so again I'm not sure. Either way you're talking about understanding how these situations were handled and what were the circumstances that led up them. You're probably also talking about that capitalized misspelled musical instrument, if you've heard it.
It's also worth mentioning that the number of people killed in Haiti was around 300,000. The number of people killed in Japan was around 15,000 at this point with 5,000 missing.
Also, you could think about how much of a connection there is between scientific research and the social utility that results from it. How much of scientific research actually gives our world something useful that makes it a better place to live in. And how much of that research further degrades our world. But I guess it's all progress right? It's in our DNA they'll say, that's what we do as a species is discover things and build machines, etc etc. And if you're going to allow people to research things that (supposedly) make our world better, you have to allow people to research the things that steadily destroy it.
Makes you wonder about selling a nuclear power plant as waterfront property.
There's also the layer of this track that deals with the individual asking about what's going on that led to such terrible natural disasters. And is it even worth asking / acting?
Also, perhaps there's an element where either the "construct" is watching these awful situations in other countries or it's the American public salivating as they watch such disasters unfold on our various television news networks. Either way there's some laughing going on I think.
But we're such a generous country and we provided aid to these countries during such an awful disaster. I think the "Action, this quick again" lyrics has to be sarcastic because of how slow the US can be to act in such scenarios. Maybe "beating the game" is not dying, in other words surviving as you watch people dead in piles of rubble in other countries and enjoying the fact that you're still alive and not in such an awful country and such an awful situation. In effect, you "beat the game" because you're alive and they're dead.
Though it could also be those will ill intentions who are dealing with the small fishes in order to "beat the game," or more specifically killing the small fishes directly or indirectly. As in systematic depopulation.
There's also the element of deceiving foreign governments about America's true intentions when providing aid, etc.