Idealism, the fatal bug (linguistic biases)

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Sonic degeneracy - Vol. I: Cynical humanism

(Full-length, 2024)

Music written in january 2017, lyrics written in march 2017.

Trivia

By using the "ultra-noisy grind song meets super-intellectual lyrics" formula of Blood and Agathocles, I take a jab at human language and symbolic thought, and our tendency to create abstract concepts that get turned into active entities (God, fate, karma etc.), controlling the way we perceive life.

Reject idealism, embrace materialism.

Lyrics

Idealism, the fatal bug

Of human way of reasoning

Creating an immaterial

Parallel world of fantasy

We're biased about our language

Forget its descriptive value

We treat abstract concepts

Like active, concrete entities

World stop adhering coherently

To precise, concrete objects

This naivety shapes our thoughts

We lose touch with reality

Parallel platonic world

Where ideas reign supreme

The root of metaphysics

At the expense of our existence

Dialectic, binary thinking

Artificial ways of reasoning

Forgot the conventional nature

Of our linguistic system

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