Definitely "an ode to hedonism and egocentrism" like danoelmano says.
What's striking to me is how this is like the speaker in "Evil Friends" (the song) taking things too far. That guy knows everything's a mess and is trying to make sense of everything, all while insisting that he doesn't really need the help of the idiots around him to do so. "It's not that I'm evil"; he just doesn't see any point in pretending that those morons have any value to add.
But here, the speaker's driven himself too far inward. Everything is still screwed up, sure, but now he responds to it not by trying to forge his own path, but by just embracing sensory pleasure without any care about how doing so affects anyone. He's no longer insisting that he's not trying to be evil--in fact, "evil" selfishness is now his only escape from all of the world's issues and all of the idiots that surround him. Because he needs to escape--it's not greed, but necessity.
Think Pink from "The Wall" on Side 2. He's retreating from all of his pain, just pursuing sensory pleasure ("Young Lust") while angrily pushing everyone else away from him ("Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 3"). I think this song is pretty analogous.
Definitely "an ode to hedonism and egocentrism" like danoelmano says.
What's striking to me is how this is like the speaker in "Evil Friends" (the song) taking things too far. That guy knows everything's a mess and is trying to make sense of everything, all while insisting that he doesn't really need the help of the idiots around him to do so. "It's not that I'm evil"; he just doesn't see any point in pretending that those morons have any value to add.
But here, the speaker's driven himself too far inward. Everything is still screwed up, sure, but now he responds to it not by trying to forge his own path, but by just embracing sensory pleasure without any care about how doing so affects anyone. He's no longer insisting that he's not trying to be evil--in fact, "evil" selfishness is now his only escape from all of the world's issues and all of the idiots that surround him. Because he needs to escape--it's not greed, but necessity.
Think Pink from "The Wall" on Side 2. He's retreating from all of his pain, just pursuing sensory pleasure ("Young Lust") while angrily pushing everyone else away from him ("Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 3"). I think this song is pretty analogous.