In the messed-up Western model of courtship and marriage, guys go after ladies and it doesn't always work out.
This song is gentle guidance that it's ridiculous to want to force someone to marry you, or anything like that. You can stack your cards and see what happens.
The problem is that most people can't handle this sort of reckless and insane cultural model, then blame themselves instead of their culture. Arranged marriages are superior and ubiquitous. The West is retarded. At the altar of individual choice, we sacrifice the better part of our lives chasing after increasingly unmarriable and incapably selfish fellow-Westerners.
The song is also about sci-fi geeks who retreat into fantasy because the real world is terrible, thus making things worse. They should all know better, but as long as someone is making a dollar off their souls, any warnings to the contrary will be squashed, they'll just keep cooking up the kinds of stories that appeal to sci-fi fans.
In the messed-up Western model of courtship and marriage, guys go after ladies and it doesn't always work out.
This song is gentle guidance that it's ridiculous to want to force someone to marry you, or anything like that. You can stack your cards and see what happens.
The problem is that most people can't handle this sort of reckless and insane cultural model, then blame themselves instead of their culture. Arranged marriages are superior and ubiquitous. The West is retarded. At the altar of individual choice, we sacrifice the better part of our lives chasing after increasingly unmarriable and incapably selfish fellow-Westerners.
The song is also about sci-fi geeks who retreat into fantasy because the real world is terrible, thus making things worse. They should all know better, but as long as someone is making a dollar off their souls, any warnings to the contrary will be squashed, they'll just keep cooking up the kinds of stories that appeal to sci-fi fans.