Cast Carbon Lies

I tore those pages out of my life, held to the flame, scattering the ashes at my feet. I dance upon these words, Language licked by fire, until thrown unto the pyre. I renounce all, The lies of these generations. The dominionist fallacy. This is how it ends. [Explanation: We've all had times in our lives when we thought we knew everything. We look back and laugh at how wrong we were. It is because of this that we must call to mind the atrocities committed in the name of Objective Truth. Whether through claims to religious virtue or for the sake of scientific "progress," we all like to believe that our way of doing things is the only right way. On a larger scale, we like to think that our way of living is the only "correct" and only "human" way to live. Many fail to realize that humanity lived successfully for hundreds of millennia without feeling the need to clear-cut forests, plant crops, divide labor, enslave each other, construct hierarchies, and wage war. And of course we believe that ours is the most advanced/perfect way for people to exist and with each generation we further separate ourselves from our naturally selected relationships with each other and this planet. This song is a rejection of ideology that turns people against each other by dividing the individual against their own experiences and the rest of the world. The same way we examine our personal history we must examine the history of our culture and determine for ourselves if this is the way we wish to continue living.]