Nine Inch Nails – Survivalism

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  General Comment:Nirvana's In Bloom also has the line "Nature is a whore." Possible reference

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  General Comment:There are so many awesome NIN songs yet this one really stands out with such a direct and incisive commentary. Even more-so than Headike a Hole, Survivalism is like the distillation of modernist American revolutionary idealism, fully detached from patriotism and neo-feudal/nationalistic sensibilities. Sorry Alec Empire, but if you grew up in a shit-hole like Cleveland Trent Reznor would of made you happy as an assistant.

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  General Comment:I think it should be
  
  "I got my fist, I got my DICK, I got survivalism"
  
  I just saw him live last night, and that's what he was saying, and he would grab his junk,.

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  General Comment:This song, like the rest on Year Zero, is poltical. I think 'survivalism' is the opposite of pacifism, like the last line says. Trent is talking about our government and society and how we rape the planet (mother nature is a whore) and destroy the world to try to save ourselves. We just go along conquering the planet and destroying everything to try to save our nation and our messed up way of life.

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  General Comment:"Our mother nature is a whore"
  
  
  
  oil slicked feather, putrid stenched water-bed
  "mother nature's a whore," said the shotgun to the head.
  -page 48 of: , Said The Shotgun To The Head by Saul Williams

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  General Comment:Does anyone think this song sounds alot like "Flashback" by Ministry?

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  General Comment:I could be wrong, but as some of you have said, i don't think he is talking about george bush.
  It's set 15 years in the future.
  The album is about how the worlds going to be then.

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  General Comment:Great song but is the music video really needed. I was watching it closly at work to try and pick up and signs little did I know it had all the gay. I hate to sould like a homophobe but that isnt anything I want to see. EVER!

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