Words=Bad is one way to put it, but look at it this way. Previous to this we are exposed to 2 divine figureheads in the album, some sort of god (represented as kings in On Conquest and Capture which by the way, ends after Bone Marrow, the middle of the album is untitled) and Flidias, who was only referred to by name in Limb From Limb. That said, the "Anima Animus" statement is possibly the most important line on the entire album, as it clearly differentiates the two opposing forces. To quote from Wikipedia "In the unconscious of the male, this archetype finds expression as a feminine inner personality: anima; equivalently, in the unconscious of the female it is expressed as a masculine inner personality: animus". So, the true distinction made between the benevolent goddess of nature, existence and reason and the malevolent god of man's true ignorance as abstraction. Holding to no doctrine or objective views of reality is the only way to be true, and to "deflesh the world" or to remove it of all preconceived ideas made by us as humans is the only way to see reality in it's purest form. So yeah, Words=Bad would be one way of saying it. This song also sets the stage for Isosceles, where human ignorance overthrows the goddess of reason just as the people killed Shah-Jahan in C&C, which explains the title.
Words=Bad is one way to put it, but look at it this way. Previous to this we are exposed to 2 divine figureheads in the album, some sort of god (represented as kings in On Conquest and Capture which by the way, ends after Bone Marrow, the middle of the album is untitled) and Flidias, who was only referred to by name in Limb From Limb. That said, the "Anima Animus" statement is possibly the most important line on the entire album, as it clearly differentiates the two opposing forces. To quote from Wikipedia "In the unconscious of the male, this archetype finds expression as a feminine inner personality: anima; equivalently, in the unconscious of the female it is expressed as a masculine inner personality: animus". So, the true distinction made between the benevolent goddess of nature, existence and reason and the malevolent god of man's true ignorance as abstraction. Holding to no doctrine or objective views of reality is the only way to be true, and to "deflesh the world" or to remove it of all preconceived ideas made by us as humans is the only way to see reality in it's purest form. So yeah, Words=Bad would be one way of saying it. This song also sets the stage for Isosceles, where human ignorance overthrows the goddess of reason just as the people killed Shah-Jahan in C&C, which explains the title.