For me, Smith is warning (as he always does) about generalised, low-level creeping inhumanity. The song is an attack (as always in Smith's songs) on hatred.. 'The Nazis'= the violence of 'Shooting an Elephant', the Orwell story. The mindset which used to underlie European colonialism and now underlies other violences.
For me, Smith is warning (as he always does) about generalised, low-level creeping inhumanity. The song is an attack (as always in Smith's songs) on hatred.. 'The Nazis'= the violence of 'Shooting an Elephant', the Orwell story. The mindset which used to underlie European colonialism and now underlies other violences.
I put a finger on the weird.