Sprintcyclist wrote on Mar 30
th, 2022 at 9:03pm:
Sprint I love your honesty.
This song touched my heart when it was first released in 1998. Yes ... some 24 years ago 😔
The song is about the effect of totalitarianism on humanity esp the children ... the future of humanity. Totalitarianism comes in 2 forms : fascism and communism. These extreme forms of control on people aren't that much different as they become more and more extreme.
The clip explores these effects.
Total control leads to facelessness and to automaton type humans who lack individuality and identity.
Such people comply one by one to instructions like obedient robots attached to electricity. In fact everything is controlled by electricity. Once the switch is turned off nothing exists or can exist. It's totally reliant on that form of power and control.
The irony in that clip is that we aren't really alive anyway. We are made to believe we are alive. We go through the motions of real life but it's all just a sanitised version of reality that we've been allowed to live in and believe in.
The masks over the face in that clip relate to the fact that we can't breathe normal natural air as it's become too dangerous. Our mind's eyes are blinded so we are effectively walking around with no eyes. We function according to instruction in a sanitized environment covered in plastic so as to be safe from killer germs/viruses. That's why there's a lot of plastic covered and sealed off instruments everywhere.
Which brings us to people sitting around what appears to be natural clean water. Except it's anything but natural and clean. It's filthy and can't be drunk. It's tainted red. Why? People have died in this type of world order. Lots of people have died so much so the evidence of the REAL level of
bloodshed is creeping through any which way it can in the vain hope it will wake the blind who can't see the truth because they no longer possess the physical ability to see through the convincing propaganda that shapes and controls their reality.
Ultimately this seals the fate of humanity as the children are brought up in this NEW NORMAL "reality" and all they know is to obey when told. No free thinking exists anymore.
Note : This song was written in 1998. It may as well have been a prophecy. Oh wait .... the band was called THE manic street PREACHERS 😔