To those who think this piece is about arachnophobia: unfortunately, you’re quite right, but also very very wrong. That’s because the spiders SOAD mention here are of the human kind, and more precisely, of the persuasion that wants to know everything about everyone in order to control us all. Those people tend to act a bit like the spider-bots on the net; but you have to remember, their intent is invariably malicious.
Your lives are open wide,
The V-chip gives them sight…
All the life running through her hair.The spiders all in tune,
The evening of the moon –
Dreams are made winding through my head…
I won’t now speculate on who the “she” and the “I” in the song are, but one thing is clear: they both live under the foot of surveillance, and both are forced to participate in the production of the sinister, unnatural “dreams”. SOAD present us with a scary and sad vision, but also give us the power to understand and change it at the same time. We should, at the very least, attempt to prevent such a vision from becoming reality – it’s all in our hands. Q. W3ary over & out.
