![]() We're ALL animals living on the same farm - consuming and providing resources. Even dung is a resource for other animals. Second verse: All organisms are optomistic about gaining their resources (it's in our genetic programing), but we are all destined to becoming resources for other organisms - when pigs go to market, they are butchered and consumed, as old forms of life become inadequate, new forms rise up "out of the swamp." Dropping a payload is taking a dump. Flies, vultures, and large critters eating smaller / weaker ones shouldn't be of any concern - everything needs the resources, including us. Reason:Īnother way of exploring meanings of this song is from the biological / ecological / evolutionary perspective:įirst verse: Everything is just trying to secure natural resources, and we should not be judgemental about it. That, of course, is beyond our control, and we should submit and accept to that reality, all the while trying our best to move our universe in a better direction. That is the optimistic message: it's ok to be limited in power. ![]() Still, we should be happy with simply trying our best with our limited powers. Each of us has limited power to achieve this goal, given that the universe seems to push in an amoral direction. ![]() Thus, the chorus comes along to tell us that, despite this amoral universe we find ourselves in, all we can do is 'try the best we can' to improve our world and our universe, in order to make it moral. We wouldn't be able to exist if the weak were weeded out and the strong allowed to survive.Īnd yet, this is a morally unsatisfying reality. Most of the song seems to be describing the dog eat dog world we were born into - not just the Capitalist economic system we live in, but the whole shebang: evolution, the very process which allows us to exist, even, is dog eat dog.
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