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Automatic Man
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12/02/2010 at 19:46
This is an indication how society and the modern world has converted humans into robots or automatons, or the automatic man. We are programmed to do how however society labels us, says "opinions are determined by the status quo", "he is the common man."
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11/20/2010 at 12:12
It seems that as a whole the album refers to none of us having semblance of control. Not at the macro level (our lives, behaviors and personas) and not at the micro level (biologically, atomically and psychologically)
Because of that, it seems that the irony in this song is that we criticize others all the time for going through the motions, making bad decisions, etc. But no matter where you look, you'll see an Automatic Man. It's in our nature to be this way. This song speaks about it on a social/business/political level but really, it's at every level. |
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02/09/2006 at 21:17
It talks about human nature and what humans do without direction or rules to bother them.
When he says "he can leap a dotted line in just a single bound" it is about the business man who signs on the dotted line so much he can do it in a single bound. When he says "the quintessential mindless modern epicine" he says that he is the perfect example of all people male and female. "Bang bang he's dead" states about how we worship people who kill other people for their crimes against the automatic man a.k.a. humanity. It's true you must have met him he's your best friend and your foe means that he is everyone's nature. A true creature of habit , with humans being that creature, he smokes three packs a day tells us that we create things to kill ourselves and don't stop when we realize it. |
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07/11/2004 at 11:51
This song reflects on a type of person you'll meet, the type of person who has a presence and the type of person who looks like everyone else. The kind of person who can live life without any regrets, a 'paradigm of carefree living' you might say.
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07/11/2004 at 11:51
This song is simply about the fact that the 'common man' today is mindless, obtuse, lazy, and unoriginal. It blames most of the problems in the world today on this new ideology and says the people with the most power and those who have the most control are of this type.
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