I think this is an argument about the nature of human beings. Humans tend to shape things in order to fill holes. They label, the examine, they change. We have removed ourselves from evolution in this way.
Byrne I think is arguing that our need and obsession with doing this is actually doing the opposite. Its making us lose ourself, and making our understanding less complete. The whole album I think is about this to a degree.
@istareatthesun Just came here to say this makes zero sense.
@istareatthesun Just came here to say this makes zero sense.
"They label, the examine, they change"
"They label, the examine, they change"
"Its making us lose ourself, and making our understanding less complete."
"Its making us lose ourself, and making our understanding less complete."
These two contradict each other like hell.
These two contradict each other like hell.
We are "losing our self" because we are labelling(giving things names to get a better UNDERSTANDING of them).
We are "losing our self" because we are labelling(giving things names to get a better UNDERSTANDING of them).
We are "losing our self" because we are examining(A fucking thing to help UNDERSTANDING be done).
We are "losing our self" because we are examining(A fucking thing to help UNDERSTANDING be done).
We are "losing our self" because we are changing(progressing, after UNDERSTANDING past problems to not repeat them like a fucking idiot or to solve them.)
And apparent this is making our "understanding" less complete, whatever to hell that vague phrase means. If this is what Byrne was actually trying to say... That's dumb.
I think this is an argument about the nature of human beings. Humans tend to shape things in order to fill holes. They label, the examine, they change. We have removed ourselves from evolution in this way.
Byrne I think is arguing that our need and obsession with doing this is actually doing the opposite. Its making us lose ourself, and making our understanding less complete. The whole album I think is about this to a degree.
The definition of post-modern.
The definition of post-modern.
@istareatthesun Just came here to say this makes zero sense.
@istareatthesun Just came here to say this makes zero sense.
"They label, the examine, they change"
"They label, the examine, they change"
"Its making us lose ourself, and making our understanding less complete."
"Its making us lose ourself, and making our understanding less complete."
These two contradict each other like hell.
These two contradict each other like hell.
We are "losing our self" because we are labelling(giving things names to get a better UNDERSTANDING of them).
We are "losing our self" because we are labelling(giving things names to get a better UNDERSTANDING of them).
We are "losing our self" because we are examining(A fucking thing to help UNDERSTANDING be done).
We are "losing our self" because we are examining(A fucking thing to help UNDERSTANDING be done).
We are "losing our self" because we are changing(progressing, after UNDERSTANDING past problems to not repeat them like a fucking idiot or to solve them.)
And apparent this is making our "understanding" less complete, whatever to hell that vague phrase means. If this is what Byrne was actually trying to say... That's dumb.