Lips and Eyes

(1) This song is not only about the psychology of violence in relation to war and repression etc., but also it is relevant in the many cases of violent acts committed by supposedly lone, crazed social delinquents. The notion that such people were simply crazy is an ignorant and thus incorrect notion. Someone lacking the capacity to think is unlikely to plot a successful act of violence, and assuming they're crazy is a way to avoid taking responsibility as a society. The culture here in the U.S. is extraordinarily violent, so much that - more broadly and realistically defined - most U.S.-cultured Americans appear to almost be instinctively prone to violence. In fact we are infatuated with those who can determine when violence can be justified, even if they really can't, and anticipate, with a thrill and excitement that can only translate to an arrogant zeal, the actual occurrence of violence. So much that FOX TV has built an industry on propagating acts of violence, washed by the endorsement of falsely prestigious institutions like the military and police departments, and justified by far-fetched hype and social myths. In the case of Jared Loughner consider that 'the tongue is a gun that fires ammunition made from observations visualizing the trajectory's harm', in other words he may well have felt he was defending himself against undetectable threats that appeared, to him at least, as being cast by those around him, and especially those over him. It is not as though the Obama administration and their lapdogs in the press didn't respond with hostility and incitement violence when Julian Assange drew the eyes of the world toward the U.S. military, energy industry, financial institutions and the like. "It is humiliation compelling the weak and exposed, the emperor with no clothes then acts accordingly". Loughner's behavior was predictable.