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...So evil ones should get a little more.
Recently, I was listening to Laplace's Angel, and I started to think about how it tied into the Normal Albums themes as a whole. If you don't know, the Normal Album is a music album created by Will Wood. The album's main themes are about identity, what it means, mental health, and dissatisfaction with mental health care.
Laplace's Angel is about a murderer talking to us. He speaks about how everyone has the capability of murder, everyone has a breaking point. Everyone has something that they would commit murder for, so is it really right to judge him? Is he really that bad? After all, if you were in his shoes, you'd wear the same size as him.
Taken literally, it doesn't really coincide with the rest of the album. It's a song about death, which could coincide with The Most Important Thing in the World or (loosely) I/Me/Myself, but I think those kinds of comparisons are too big of a stretch.
So I sit and I think.
Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave is a song criticizing modern therapy; how the things in a persons head define them and how they seek these labels out because they think it will solve their problems. What's a symptom, what's a flaw? Why are we defined by the things that are wrong with us? Why do we feel the need to mold our experiences to a label, so that we may seek help? So that we may be judged?
We shouldn't be treated differently because we experience the world in a different way. Perhaps the onus is on society for demonizing those who are not typical, whatever typical is. And, given the chance, most of us probably wouldn't get rid of the problems we have. In a way, our unique experience mold our unique views of the world, and that's important. I bet you wouldn't even if you could change, the things that make you special are the things that make you strange.
To come back to Laplace's Angel with this context, it's clear what it is about. It's a metaphor for people with mental illness. For a neurotypical to be compared to someone with BPD? Ridiculous. Preposterous. "I'm nothing like THEM."
Who do you really think the "evil" ones who should get a little more are? Because it isn't murderers, I can tell you that.
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