Sequel
from Chris Merritt:
Virginia Is For Hoverers (Part I) (2009)
Teach them figures and tuck them in tight
You’re going O my golly O my golly
Making sure nobody gets in a fight
You’re going O my golly O my golly
Working all day and sleeping all night
You’re saying O my golly O my golly
Beat them and hang them and burn them
Singing O my golly O my golly O my golly
Over my dead body, my dead body, my dead body
For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people
For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people
This has all played out in another film but this time you’ve got ten times the budget
For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people
Give them all lots of shots and pills
You’re singing O my golly O my golly
Stuff them all full with coke and krill
You’re saying O my golly O my golly
Make sure everyone gets their fill
You’re saying O my golly O my golly
Rape them and rob them and kill them
Singing O my golly O my golly O my golly
Over my dead body, my dead body, my dead body
For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people
For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people
This has all played out in another film but this time you’ve got ten times the budget
For the sequel you’re gonna hurt a lot of people
The lyrics of Sequel were inspired by the idea that all civilizations end, and that in fact America is reaching the end of it’s greatest era. At the time, I was reading a lot about the fall of Egypt, which wasn’t an immediate, single event, but a super-slow, bureacratic digestion of the initial artistic, creative, and scientific explosions that made Egypt the great city it was.
The story of the fall of empires is infamously due to greedy rulers, warring tyrants, etc., but I think even more ELEMANTAL is the seeping of complexity and bureacracy into every aspect of government and private life.
Humans try to slove problems. We ultimately take ourselves to incredible heights through our problem-solving, but many times, trying to solve problems creates other problems. Civilization is one giant science experiment, that turns out better and better results, but in the meantime, entire kingdoms fall to the mistakes an good intentions of man. Which isn’t a bad thing, necisarrily, but why can’t we learn from our mistakes at this point, as modern America starts to sour?
America’s mistakes tend to baffle me in recent times. We couldn’t have more well-documented examples at this point of the policies which are corrosive to a thriving complex society. Religious obsession, for example, is the poison of reason and scientific thinking. It’s the socio-historical equivalent of running backwards through centuries towards our neanderthal-ancestors, to a time when we were huddled around a fire, dying at age 30, shrouded in darkness.
Another obvious one is complexity and bureacracy. It’s obvious, it seems to me anyway, that through history, the smaller governments come out on top, but as things get muddled up by good intentions and complexity, things get boring, stifling, depressing, and eventaully,
self-destructive.
A people is empowered by freedom and lack of constraints. Taxes, policies, laws, paperwork, requirements, etc., after a certain point, become stifling and paralyzing, financially and mentally for any human individual trying to live out his life. We’ve reached that threshold in America. It’s more and more difficult to start a business, be an artist, go out on a limb, invent, invest. The best bet for someone living in our times is to keep their head down, get a 9 to 5, get good insurance, get married, have some babies, and get all their paperwork in order before they die and get buried.
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