As much as I said I'd stay clear of this song... I decided to give it another stab. This is the somewhat psychedelic take on it and in keeping with the colors green and red. Those colors seem very much in keeping with the time of the movie Metropolis... think of green gargoyles overlooking New York City. Green is maybe a corrosive color and red is passion. And you get to see Bill wearing red frame glasses, which look very cool!
Also, what struck me with the clanging guitar opening is that it sounds like chains on the men shuffling along. They are like a chain gang, and you hear the HUH... OHH, which was actually lifted from the 70s song Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting. Amazing what freaky things work!
You may ask why did I call it LIVE IN THE AI Rage? Apart from the pun on Live in the Air Age, AI is all the rage today. With it comes algorithms that assess what you watch on TV, your location, your shopping habits, and your social media. And with algorithms comes a transhumanist movement that wants you coupled to a machine, or containing a chip, or uploading your brain to the cloud. Bill was very prescient with that one picture that has a head floating in the clouds. So close to 100 years ago – Metropolis was made in 1927 – people were thinking the same types of thoughts in their modern age. With that movie, we can see the same types of tyranny to control the people, the same kind of efforts to keep the masses marching along, uninformed and stupid. Today we have legacy media to keep us in line in thinking the right thoughts. That will be coupled with a digital currency to keep us compliant – otherwise, our banking and access to money can be shut off by the state, along with our electric car (a car kill switch proposal just pasted in the US congress). We will be hostage to the state. There will be no privacy as our lives will be constantly monitored. What made all this possible is AI. And some people want to be connected to machinery thinking they will become immortal. So this is what I have briefly laid out in this video using COVID as a recent context. I hope people enjoy it.
Incidentally, the upside-down star suggests that machinery will win out over mankind. Yes, how do you control AI so that it doesn't become more intelligent and harm you? The inverted star also suggests Satan. I can go on about Satan, but I'll stop here.