Filter – Cancer

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  General Comment:I agree with the Smith monologue. That's the deal.
  
  Humanity is the cancer of the world; IMO not because of any physical disease or environmental harm, but because of the huge value we put in things that don't really matter. We spend our lives gaining material things and hurting others, and in the end we don't really gain anything out of it. What seems important won't last forever. Because we do this, we're hurting the world in so many ways, and hurting ourselves as well.

  Flag DAMtastychickenon October 01, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:"Scum of the earth - I am humanity"
  
  that about sums this one up. He's singing as a self-realized and cynical (and possibly insanely pleased with itself) race of self-absorbed ravagers of a planet.
  
  Truth: since humanity has risen, the earth has undergone a type of transformation it has never undertaken. The entity that is singing is cynical, ignorant, and negligent of the way ecology had developed in balance before.
  
  Kitsune's reference to "The Matrix"'s Smith's monologue was the first thing that came to me.
  
  Irony in the matrix: didn't the robot race do exactly the same? Just remembering the completeness of the artificial ground cover they had built, as evident in Revolution.

  Flag therambler07on November 28, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:I think I cheesy line from 'The Matrix' Explains the entirety of this song...
  
  'like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet'

  Flag Kitsune_Tokkanon July 03, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:This song is bad. The chorus kicks. I like what Fremont said.

  Flag Lateralus518on May 25, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:"What seems important won't last forever."
  
  We're the consummate consumer society, we Americans.
  
  A wedding or prom dress. A new car to trade in three years from now. A new CD that'll end up in the used bin.
  
  I had to replace ToR and that's where I found it. It's staying in my collection for good, and this song is one of the reasons why.

  Flag Fremonton June 30, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:yeah, humanity's the scum of the earth. killed everything, destroyed everything....ps: me don't think the song's anti-american...Richard Patrick loves his country too much.

  Flag St@rfuckeron May 08, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:yeah because humans have made LA all smog and polluted like that.

  Flag rtilon March 28, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:The cancer in this song is humanity. This song takes a negative look at humanity's environmental impact on the planet, and how we have spread and conquered the planet like a disease.

  Flag kmk_natashaon March 11, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:this song is about humans as a bacterial fungus of the earth.

  Flag incuon May 08, 2004   Link

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  General Comment:its about diseases that can come from anywhere and goes everywhere it wants. and can not be stopped. over populated cities have troubles getting the correct amount of vaccines. "take a look at the earth, from a plane, youll see the earth, cut up and in pain" the world is getting hurt by the diseases we have. "take a look at LA from another sky, what you see, should make you cry" over populated city, not enough medicine for everyone. so many people homeless and sick. the spread of diseases.

  Flag ArchAngelVanityon June 22, 2003   Link

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