I agree with one the earlier interpretation of the song, the scaremongering line practically gives it away. It’s an illustration of paranoid living, especially around the time that this song would been written in, that Y2K period. Eck. I swear I heard on the radio so many possible dates for the “impending world apocalypse”, and some people went crazy stocking up their storage room. A similar paranoia built up for the cold war, and other threats of mass destruction from any Others, this includes the Cuban Missile Crisis. Point is, there’s always an impending threat, but since it always on the verge of happening whether it happens or never happens isn’t important, because its in a state of perpetual happening. We may be imaging things and we get paranoid of our own inherently destructive nature, so we built apparatuses to defend ourselves: bunkers. We send our women and children to the bunkers, because they are rationally the hope for the dominion of MANkind (women are need to re-populate the earth, and the children are the future, so that why they must go in the bunker first). However, we are building solutions to the problems we create, and building up defensive against ourselves. The only real defence is to change of ourselves, which is basically not going to happen. But yes, I could see how some people got the Global Warming interpretation from the Ice-age coming line, the earth is supposed to cool and adjust itself after it warms up, same thing with the nuclear winter interpretation.
Thom always seems to add some sort of corporate techno-mob mentality line. But I love them: Mobiles skwerking / Mobiles chirping
We must communicate people… the end is nigh. Well that or just engage in mindless banter.
I really liked how someone tied this song with that line from Optimistic: Dinosaurs rule the earth. Clever.
I agree with one the earlier interpretation of the song, the scaremongering line practically gives it away. It’s an illustration of paranoid living, especially around the time that this song would been written in, that Y2K period. Eck. I swear I heard on the radio so many possible dates for the “impending world apocalypse”, and some people went crazy stocking up their storage room. A similar paranoia built up for the cold war, and other threats of mass destruction from any Others, this includes the Cuban Missile Crisis. Point is, there’s always an impending threat, but since it always on the verge of happening whether it happens or never happens isn’t important, because its in a state of perpetual happening. We may be imaging things and we get paranoid of our own inherently destructive nature, so we built apparatuses to defend ourselves: bunkers. We send our women and children to the bunkers, because they are rationally the hope for the dominion of MANkind (women are need to re-populate the earth, and the children are the future, so that why they must go in the bunker first). However, we are building solutions to the problems we create, and building up defensive against ourselves. The only real defence is to change of ourselves, which is basically not going to happen. But yes, I could see how some people got the Global Warming interpretation from the Ice-age coming line, the earth is supposed to cool and adjust itself after it warms up, same thing with the nuclear winter interpretation.
Thom always seems to add some sort of corporate techno-mob mentality line. But I love them: Mobiles skwerking / Mobiles chirping We must communicate people… the end is nigh. Well that or just engage in mindless banter. I really liked how someone tied this song with that line from Optimistic: Dinosaurs rule the earth. Clever.