I find it difficult to find a common thematic thread throughout the entire song. However, there is a lot of conflicting imagery between modern, technologically-driven life and more natural/tribal-driven life ("going back to Tangier with some Jordans and a spear"). It's almost as if he's collaging these images to make the dichotomy even more apparent, but I think also to show the lack (or mupliticity, depending on how you view it) of collective and individual identity in the modern world. I also think of Wikileaks (they are mentioned, of course) and the hacker group Anonymous in the verse that starts "you'll catch a jpeg to the head" and also during the chorus. The ubiquity of the internet has also made it so a hacker can appear to be "in your area" stealing all of your personal information, but maybe they are on the other side of the world. Just some thoughts.
I find it difficult to find a common thematic thread throughout the entire song. However, there is a lot of conflicting imagery between modern, technologically-driven life and more natural/tribal-driven life ("going back to Tangier with some Jordans and a spear"). It's almost as if he's collaging these images to make the dichotomy even more apparent, but I think also to show the lack (or mupliticity, depending on how you view it) of collective and individual identity in the modern world. I also think of Wikileaks (they are mentioned, of course) and the hacker group Anonymous in the verse that starts "you'll catch a jpeg to the head" and also during the chorus. The ubiquity of the internet has also made it so a hacker can appear to be "in your area" stealing all of your personal information, but maybe they are on the other side of the world. Just some thoughts.