So I don't usually comment on these things but I was listening to this the other day and something stuck out to me so here it is.
So in the first part about the man (tourist) and the tortoise, the man has the option to listen to the marvels of the world, to discovery how everything works. But instead, he chooses to kill the tortoise to gain it's jewel covered shell. Instead of doing the right thing, he does the thing that instantly gives pleasure.
In the next part, Brock talks about how we are strangers to ourselves, and tourists in our own heads. To me, he is talking about the fact we know what the right thing is to do, but we don't do it so we gain pleasure. This is destroying our world, in both a physical and non physical way. "Toss the map on the ground, it isn't accurate anyways", this is saying that we have been given the directions, but we don't follow them, backing up the point I was making before.
The last part of the song is just the lines "Let's go. Let's go on.", I think this just talks about even after we recognise the affect of our actions, we continue to act against our knowledge of right.
I know all about this, right now I'm writing an interpretation instead of doing my overdue assignments.
So I don't usually comment on these things but I was listening to this the other day and something stuck out to me so here it is.
So in the first part about the man (tourist) and the tortoise, the man has the option to listen to the marvels of the world, to discovery how everything works. But instead, he chooses to kill the tortoise to gain it's jewel covered shell. Instead of doing the right thing, he does the thing that instantly gives pleasure.
In the next part, Brock talks about how we are strangers to ourselves, and tourists in our own heads. To me, he is talking about the fact we know what the right thing is to do, but we don't do it so we gain pleasure. This is destroying our world, in both a physical and non physical way. "Toss the map on the ground, it isn't accurate anyways", this is saying that we have been given the directions, but we don't follow them, backing up the point I was making before.
The last part of the song is just the lines "Let's go. Let's go on.", I think this just talks about even after we recognise the affect of our actions, we continue to act against our knowledge of right.
I know all about this, right now I'm writing an interpretation instead of doing my overdue assignments.