After watching the video I was quite intrigued as to the meaning of this.. so let's see.
It seems to relate to the general themes of religion and love 'one step at a time'. On the other hand the title is foolin', specifically 'on the human population'. So putting these together I'm guessing it's about having faith in religion, love and humanity, while the very same faith and religion is used for creating fear and the opposite of love, 'Fearing oh I'm sure gettin' better; With every morn a new fear is born'.
While he continues to love, "trusting trusting trusting
Knowing that we're in it together
Free to face unknown, free to overcome"
he's conflicted by others who are "foolin'" the population by negatively interpreting religion, which causes him to fear he's also foolin others. In the end, he still has hope and continues to have faith.
While watching the video he reminded me of Jesus, with the flagellation, lack of clothing, skinnyness.. haha and at the beginning when the man opens the door saying "Do you?", Devendra answers by opening his jacket a little to reveal the tattoo on his chest reading 'FE' which means faith in spanish. Therefore, he begins the video by saying he has faith.
Maybe a greater theme/message to the song/video is to stay positive a day at a time, and to do good with what you know- even if others aren't.
Although... he deliberately knocked on the door, so maybe he was aware of what would come but wanted to go through it to learn more through experience? Harder experiences and life situations can lead to the most growth.
"Harder experiences and life situations can lead to the most growth." That's not necessarily true. When the results are what we want (we as in humans), we see no reason to change/grow. We are getting what we want/need so there's no reason to up the anty, so to speak...why fix it if it ain't broke, as the saying goes. Not sure why you "ha ha"ed about Jesus and the flagellation; I'm thinkin' lightning might strike you today:-)
"Harder experiences and life situations can lead to the most growth." That's not necessarily true. When the results are what we want (we as in humans), we see no reason to change/grow. We are getting what we want/need so there's no reason to up the anty, so to speak...why fix it if it ain't broke, as the saying goes. Not sure why you "ha ha"ed about Jesus and the flagellation; I'm thinkin' lightning might strike you today:-)
After watching the video I was quite intrigued as to the meaning of this.. so let's see.
It seems to relate to the general themes of religion and love 'one step at a time'. On the other hand the title is foolin', specifically 'on the human population'. So putting these together I'm guessing it's about having faith in religion, love and humanity, while the very same faith and religion is used for creating fear and the opposite of love, 'Fearing oh I'm sure gettin' better; With every morn a new fear is born'.
While he continues to love, "trusting trusting trusting Knowing that we're in it together Free to face unknown, free to overcome" he's conflicted by others who are "foolin'" the population by negatively interpreting religion, which causes him to fear he's also foolin others. In the end, he still has hope and continues to have faith.
While watching the video he reminded me of Jesus, with the flagellation, lack of clothing, skinnyness.. haha and at the beginning when the man opens the door saying "Do you?", Devendra answers by opening his jacket a little to reveal the tattoo on his chest reading 'FE' which means faith in spanish. Therefore, he begins the video by saying he has faith.
Maybe a greater theme/message to the song/video is to stay positive a day at a time, and to do good with what you know- even if others aren't.
Although... he deliberately knocked on the door, so maybe he was aware of what would come but wanted to go through it to learn more through experience? Harder experiences and life situations can lead to the most growth.
"Harder experiences and life situations can lead to the most growth." That's not necessarily true. When the results are what we want (we as in humans), we see no reason to change/grow. We are getting what we want/need so there's no reason to up the anty, so to speak...why fix it if it ain't broke, as the saying goes. Not sure why you "ha ha"ed about Jesus and the flagellation; I'm thinkin' lightning might strike you today:-)
"Harder experiences and life situations can lead to the most growth." That's not necessarily true. When the results are what we want (we as in humans), we see no reason to change/grow. We are getting what we want/need so there's no reason to up the anty, so to speak...why fix it if it ain't broke, as the saying goes. Not sure why you "ha ha"ed about Jesus and the flagellation; I'm thinkin' lightning might strike you today:-)