(Religion)
I have used this song twice before to illustrate a philosophical point, so how I could overlook what, or rather who, it really is about, just beats me. Here is a proper exegesis then:
(Excuse me and skip it if it’s been a no-brainer* to you all along)
One man[1], one goal[2],
One mission[3].
One heart[4], one soul[5],
Just one solution[6].
One flash of light[7], yeah[8],
One god[9], one vision[10].
One flesh[11], one bone[12],
One true religion[13].
One voice[14], one hope[15],
One real decision[16].
Give me one vision[17], yeah.
No wrong, no right[18].
I'm gonna tell you there's no black and no white.
No blood, no stain[19],
All we need is one worldwide vision[20].
[...]
Give me, give me, give me, give me, give me... fried chicken[21]
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[1] Jesus Christ
[2] The Kingdom of God
[3] To get ourselves and our siblings to want to get there, and to get there.
[4] His Heart
[5] Not literally: monism is unorthodox, unless ‘one soul’ refers God’s soul, which – or rather who - is the one source of all souls.
[6] Jesus’ sacrifice
[7] The flash of our understanding of those things?
[8] Could be just a filler; or an expression of understanding that goes beyond the intellect (if it were merely intellectual understanding, we’d expect the standard ‘yes’) and encompasses the heart too.
[9] Naturally, or rather: supernaturally.
[10] Obvious, if you dig any of the preceding footnotes.
[11] Jesus’ body.
[12] A difficult one.
[13] Hinduism**
[14] Obvious
[15] Obvious
[16] “Jesus, I trust you."
[17] Well, here – among other redundant posts – it is.
[18] With the advent of the Kingdom of Heaven morality will become redundant, or more: it will disappear, because evil and wrong will disappear.
[19] As those who make it will regain blood, this line may refer to Jesus’ bloody and cleansing sacrifice, which will have done its job by then.
[20] Hear, hear
[21] An exegesis of fried chicken deserves a separate post.
*yes, I can see the potential to turn this against me, but I'm brave. And anyway, mockers gonna mock. (Well, I'm open minded too: they may be right. The thing is this doesn't look likely the way things, and prophesies, stand).
**O.K. - not funny.
