| The Doors – The End Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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yes: oedipus is the Greek tragedy about the boy who killed his father and then slept with his mother. It is supposed to represent ultimate inevitability (because Oedipus had meant to do neither). Freud's psychoanalysis (in which he was looking for recurring images in myth) attempted to show that this idea - the father-son competetion for the sexual resources of the clan - is part of an underlying strata of human existence. The song, of course, also represents Christian linearism (beginning/middle/end as opposed to neverending cycles). |
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| Stereolab – Les Yper-sound Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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sports as a socializing construct to promote war and nationalism...and adversarialism in general just compare the orientation of a battlefront to that of a football game |
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| Dead Can Dance – Song of the Dispossessed Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| The colonization of paganism (and its values) in conjunction with the oppression of nature. Looking at the world through a rigid set of values blinds you to other realities. In this case, the Western materialistic, post-Christian worldview means that subjugating others is perfectly legitimate so long as it is done in accordance with a 'greater power' (whether god, capital, the free market....)....This is such a tragic, beautiful song! | |
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