Cranberries "Zombie" actually the ultimate anti-war statement.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/13/ireland-embrace-zombie-song-rugby-world-cup-stirs-debate-lyrics

Good to see Zombie having a resurgence during World Cup.

The song is so much more important than just the Anglo-Irish war.

There is never war without humans. There is no natural disaster called "war", it is purely invented by humans.

And where things have no natural existence then they are by definition "in your head."

That is why people like Churchill devoted their entire later life to getting a version of WW2 into people's heads.

Its what the NEWS exists for. Why are there "free" papers like Metro in UK in a world driven by profit? Where is the profit in "free news"? Its because of what ends up "in our heads."

And yes the people who fight are always Zombies controlled by nothing more than whatever is "in their heads".

But people may go "but my reason to fight is so *real*". Well if its so Real then let Reality do the fighting for you.

The Sun rising at dawn: now that is "real." and no one needs to push it, or indeed do anything about it. It happens by itself. That is what is real. Everything else is "in our heads." If we need to do it then its completely "in our heads."

Humans literally need a Reality check. Most of us (no exaggeration - myself included) are complete Zombies, so totally dominated by what is "in our heads" that we almost completely miss what is Really going on.

I wonder if the Cranberries really understood the universal nature of what they were trying to say.

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So someone may argue: well isn't everything in your head?

1) Can apply SRH (see previously in blog) here. Well if *everything* is in my head then my head must is in my head. In which case my head is both inside and outside my head. So not everything is inside my head. So its a contradiction to say this. (You can see the parallels here with Godel's Theorems.)

2) There are many ways to see this same truth. Another is that if everything is "in your head" then it makes no difference whether we say it or not. "in your head" becomes surplus and the more we include in "everything" the more surplus it becomes until it is meaningless.

Consider another statement: "Everything is Detromahesive".

Is a banana Detromahesive? Yes.
Is the planet Detromahesive? Yes.
Is God Detromahesive? Yes.
Are ideas Detromahesive? Yes
Is Detromahesive itself Detromahesive: Yes.
Is anything not Detromahesive: No.
SO you can't get an absence of Detromahesive: Yes.

Ok this is not as clear as I wanted, because you need get into the real boundary stuff of existence/non-existence.

But general point: if it adds nothing to say something then you can just as well leave it out. SO adding "oh btw that is Detromahesive" is just a waste of ink. And that indicates its pointlessness in the context. And if its pointless in all contexts then its meaningless. So "everything is in your head" is meaningless.

3) Another problem is the "your head" bit. For that to be meaningful we must have encountered other heads so we need to call this one "your head." If there was just one head, we would say "everything is in The head." So we know there are many heads already. Is the person saying "your head is special because everything is in your head but not our heads." Starts to get stupid, this rabbit hole not even worth it.