I wrote this 10 years ago and then people started talking about 9/11 (even thought it predates 9/11) and Princess Diana, so I'll say it again. Dustin wrote it about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance, using that novel's main character as an analogy for the lack of faith, and the lack of credence given to those of faith, by millennial US enamored with scientific progress, the separation of the cult of the body over the life of the mind, and the tenets of dualism as set out by Aristotle. ZATAOMM is about an individual who, after experiencing a philosophical revelation pertaining to Western dualism as initiated by Aristotle that would, if widely heard and understood, would fundamentally and ontologically change the nature of global consciousness, is treated as a schizophrenic and electro-shocked into a state of amnesia w/r/t his aforementioned revelation. The book depicts his memory returning, along with the urgent import of the ideas which were essentially snuffed out in an act of cultural suppression. That is what this song is about, end of story.
I wrote this 10 years ago and then people started talking about 9/11 (even thought it predates 9/11) and Princess Diana, so I'll say it again. Dustin wrote it about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance, using that novel's main character as an analogy for the lack of faith, and the lack of credence given to those of faith, by millennial US enamored with scientific progress, the separation of the cult of the body over the life of the mind, and the tenets of dualism as set out by Aristotle. ZATAOMM is about an individual who, after experiencing a philosophical revelation pertaining to Western dualism as initiated by Aristotle that would, if widely heard and understood, would fundamentally and ontologically change the nature of global consciousness, is treated as a schizophrenic and electro-shocked into a state of amnesia w/r/t his aforementioned revelation. The book depicts his memory returning, along with the urgent import of the ideas which were essentially snuffed out in an act of cultural suppression. That is what this song is about, end of story.