official music video: https://youtu.be/laSJ2qiM-Js
read the explanation: https://bit.ly/2S8FEXR
hear the explanation: https://bit.ly/2S8DkQq
track 8 of 9 from the 2019 album "lunacy + the second naïveté" by closetjudas.
"lunacy" is a short story that i wrote in the summer of 2017 (see below). "destroy the moon" is its distillation into a song. the premise is that an extremist religious group is ultimately responsible for the annihilation of all life on Earth. impatient for the world's end + egotistically zealous for their convictions to be substantiated, they set out to simulate and/or effect specific "signs" of divine judgment. quite simply, the story/song is a philosophical critique of all escapist theologies (i.e. any belief system that is more focused on an afterlife rather than our current existence).
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lunacy: a short story
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those once named the "hereafterists" never quite intended to annihilate all of the Earth's inhabitants when they furtively launched that final rocket into the night sky. having surreptitiously found a way to disrupt in unison all global tracking systems, the pioneers of their movement had only ever dreamed of catalyzing widespread panic. for if it could be incontrovertibly shown their religious assertions were legitimate - i.e. that certain seemingly "natural" disasters were a divine signal of impending doom - the underlying hope was that the number of fervent adherents would grow exponentially. however, a faction existed who were persuaded their foreparents' vision was too myopic + they were not interested in merely creating a simulation. perhaps - it was assumed - if the world were to really experience the imminence of being completely undone, the All-maker would at last bring history to an end; for all they knew, it was their action that was the missing element required to inaugurate the long-awaited After Beyond. but they were wrong. and as the neo-nuclear missile reached its destination, the Voice spoke for the first + last time, saying: "there was never more than this." the lunar detonation was total + its fragments were pulled into our atmosphere - altogether blocking out the sun with ash + continually showering the ground, rivers, lakes + seas with fiery rocks from what used to be the Moon.
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we were wrong – so sure about our assumptions
looking only to the after beyond
tore out our lungs – we scorched the earth for profit
less we breathe, sooner that we’re gone
fought, raced + won – sedated our fear of the senseless
with the notion that it won’t be long
over-drawn – the time we thought it would take
for the world to fully de-create
intolerant – of the people who mock us
who correctly say our leader’s late
counterfeit – fabricated destruction
forced the hand of super-natural fate
missile launch – splintered the sun’s reflector
killed the planet cause we couldn’t wait
we won’t be alright
it seems there was never more than this
