Maybe they're not saying it directly "Shoot up your school and kill yourself", but still, look at "A Drug Against War": TELEVISION, RELIGION SOCIAL DESTRUCTION SEX AND DRUGS VIOLENT SEDUCTION
CRYSTAL DAWN ECSTATIC EXPLOSION PARENTAL ADVICE LEADS TO MENTAL EROSION
You cannot fully understand a piece of art until you speak with the artist. Also it is hard to get a good grasp on art by looking at it out of context. While you may interpret that statement as being some type of evil the first thing I thought about was Karl Marx and the idea of religion and other various institutions as being th Opium of the masses. I also though of the concept of the Tabular Rosa in which it is stated that the mind is a blank slate to be written upon "parental advice leads to mental erosion". Could the artist simply not be referring to these two theories?
It's only the first part of the song, but still. That's enough to make me want to turn it off.
As you said it yourself it is only the first part of the song. Any anthropologist will tell you that when trying to understand a part of someones culture you must look at it in its entirety. So you have to look at the song as a whole, the time in which it was written, by whom it was written, etc.
I'm not pointing fingers as to what group of artists is to blame for what incident/happening
not directly you aren't. but indirectly....
but the government definately needs to interfere with all of this. Maybe something as simple as asking for ID when buying a CD or something along the lines of that.
currently the [American] government already does this on albums which they have deemed as being explicit. Thus there is no need for additional governmental censorship.
no subject
SOCIAL DESTRUCTION
SEX AND DRUGS
VIOLENT SEDUCTION
CRYSTAL DAWN
ECSTATIC EXPLOSION
PARENTAL ADVICE LEADS TO MENTAL EROSION
You cannot fully understand a piece of art until you speak with the artist. Also it is hard to get a good grasp on art by looking at it out of context. While you may interpret that statement as being some type of evil the first thing I thought about was Karl Marx and the idea of religion and other various institutions as being th Opium of the masses. I also though of the concept of the Tabular Rosa in which it is stated that the mind is a blank slate to be written upon "parental advice leads to mental erosion". Could the artist simply not be referring to these two theories?
It's only the first part of the song, but still. That's enough to make me want to turn it off.
As you said it yourself it is only the first part of the song. Any anthropologist will tell you that when trying to understand a part of someones culture you must look at it in its entirety. So you have to look at the song as a whole, the time in which it was written, by whom it was written, etc.
I'm not pointing fingers as to what group of artists is to blame for what incident/happening
not directly you aren't. but indirectly....
but the government definately needs to interfere with all of this. Maybe something as simple as asking for ID when buying a CD or something along the lines of that.
currently the [American] government already does this on albums which they have deemed as being explicit. Thus there is no need for additional governmental censorship.
trent | slytherin