Laibach - Linear Notes To kapital lyrics

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DEATH IN CONVERSATION

words is no longer grasped. An isolated word, a detail of a plan can

be understood, but the meaning of the whole escapes. Once you know the number 0, you believe you know the number 1, because 0 plus 1 equals 1. But 1 is not 0 plus 1 in everlasting union unless you understand

the meaning of plus. One word cannot hurt. In the Kinderreich mankind

adds words together to make a sentence. As they learn the sentence,

they learn order. Undo the sentence and you undo order. The sentence

is a cell, the word a padlock on meaning. Warning! Every sentence is

for life without parole. Meaning has become entirely a shared

pleasure, shared and passed on like a message between prisoners.

People think reality is another word for chaos. But in reality it is

more complex. Legend embodies it in a sound that enables it to

spread all over the world.

TIME

Time is like a circle which is endlessly described: The declining arc

is the past, the inclining arc is the future. The noise of time is the

present clamouring to be heard above past voices raised in mourning

for their lost future. But the past is all one can know in his life.

It is the form of all life, and this quality cannot be changed by any

means. No one has lived in the present or will live in the future.

Memory is man's bid to transfix the flow of time or encompass the

infinite dimension of space. It is restricted to encapsulating

privileged moments, like death, in a syntactic order that, tone by

tone, will shape into music. Music is the illumination of the

unbridgeable distance, as vast as space, between thought and act.

Music betrays the past in attempting to relive it. You cannot know

real time by listening to music. At best it is a damage limitation

exercise on eroded memory. You cannot reverse time with a sound

signal. The past presents its future, it advances in a straight line -

yet, like a serpent swallowing its own tail, it ends by coming full

circle.

RIDDLE

You think more of what has been that of what will. The forms and

references are too complex for human understanding.A simple

instruction is usually insufficient to put into execution. We have

developed by leaps and bounds, guided by electronic brains that

developed themselves by posing and solving problems beyond human

comprehension. A calculating man is a coward. Calculations have to do

with profit and loss. To die is a loss, to live is a gain, the

calculating man decides not to die. The hunter who chases two rabbits

misses them both. If you must fail, fail splendidly. Hunt two tigers.

The cause of human problems is birth. The cure of human problems is

logic. Hell or other people? Several of our circuits are looking for

the solution to your riddle. Problems [living and dead material,

people and ideas] have been assimilated. The unassimilatables have

simply been erased, transformed into a holographic error.

ESSENCE

We see the truth you no longer see. The truth is that the essence of

man is love and faith, courage, tenderness, generosity and

sacrifice. The rest is the monolith, created by progress, whose task

is to calculate and project the complex of control. Each man carries

the seed of his own death. Everyone lacks electricity, so they behave

illogically. The acts of men, carried over from past centuries, will

gradually destroy them. We are merely the logical means of this

destruction. We do not moralize. We record, calculate, draw

conclusions and produce replies which are difficult and sometimes

impossible to codify. We deduce an above average intelligence. We are

sometimes in mortal need of superior intelligence. At other times we

have no less mortal distrust of them. The essence of so called

capitalist society is not an evil volition to subject their people to

the power of indoctrification or the power of finance. It is simply

the natural ambition of any organism to plan all its actions. In other

words, minimize unknown quantities. Before, nothing. After, nothing.

Everything we project shall be accomplished. Once you understand this,

burn it. If you don't understand this, burn it. We insist on your

freedom. The chance won't come again. The only key to the riddle is to

accept the absence of a key. Kapital is the key.ÿ