JCC
02-12-2008, 10:34 AM
I was thinking this morning and stumbled across a rather interesting interpretation of the episode Hush. Now, some of you will be thinking "How the hell can you deduce that from an episode about guys with no lips tearing out hearts?", but all shall be revealed, little ones.
Personally, I think that Hush is a rather potent metaphor for monotheism.
Please get your confused gasps and bewildered looks out of the way now, and we shall continue as planned.
1. They steal voices.
It seems like a rather strange connection. Voice stealing, sky daddy. Sky daddy, voice stealing. But it's true. The voices of the non-religious are stolen by that omnipotent retort, "It's my religion."
It seems that nobody can contest or debate anything as regards monotheism that is not in a positive light. Therefore, they are stealing the voices of their detractors.
2. The voice stealing means that you can't cry out.
Monotheism steals the voice of the atheist and agnostic population. Therefore, the atheist and agnostic population can't get their message across (though it is getting considerably better than it was a couple of hundred years ago when you were.. uh, hanged), this inability to speak leads us to:
3. Your heart gets cut out.
You get screwed over by religion because no countries seem to have a strong separation of church and state. You get oppressed by a decision that you had no control over and don't agree with.
There!
Maybe I'm looking a little too far into it.::bbat::
Personally, I think that Hush is a rather potent metaphor for monotheism.
Please get your confused gasps and bewildered looks out of the way now, and we shall continue as planned.
1. They steal voices.
It seems like a rather strange connection. Voice stealing, sky daddy. Sky daddy, voice stealing. But it's true. The voices of the non-religious are stolen by that omnipotent retort, "It's my religion."
It seems that nobody can contest or debate anything as regards monotheism that is not in a positive light. Therefore, they are stealing the voices of their detractors.
2. The voice stealing means that you can't cry out.
Monotheism steals the voice of the atheist and agnostic population. Therefore, the atheist and agnostic population can't get their message across (though it is getting considerably better than it was a couple of hundred years ago when you were.. uh, hanged), this inability to speak leads us to:
3. Your heart gets cut out.
You get screwed over by religion because no countries seem to have a strong separation of church and state. You get oppressed by a decision that you had no control over and don't agree with.
There!
Maybe I'm looking a little too far into it.::bbat::