I think I understood BoC's work.

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Water Can : I agree with most of what is said in this itw !

Yes, humans are programmed to find patterns. It's even one of the key points of my "TOE model" (we would be self-aware cellular automata whose unconscious goal is to discover the code of the matrix by candidly experiencing life: thanks to our free will—the fact that we are ignorant—as well as our curiosity, pareidolia, and apophenia, we are "wired" to detect underlying patterns; and I believe that Alchemy, Atalanta Fugiens, as well as BoC, serve to guide us in this pattern search).

Then, don't you find it strange that on the one hand, Michael and Marcus admit to manipulating listeners, and also admit that their work is full of subliminal messages (especially with Geogaddi and TH) and that they'll be curious to see what the fans will find...

...and then say, "Others began to define what the band was instead of us"???

It's like saying, "We've hidden a lot of things, there's hidden messages we want you to understand" and then criticizing those who make assumptions...?

Sorry, but that doesn't add up at all to me. I can't imagine BoC being 100% honest in their interviews; this "discrepancy" alone tells me there's something fishy going on.

Then there's another thing to consider: when an "average" artist uses symbols or tries to slip in little hidden messages, for the sake of aesthetics or nothing more profound than that, then the symbols and hidden messages... don't really have any coherence. It's more like, "Look, I know how to hide things in my work, how cool I am."

Now, you might agree that with BoC, the coherence of the message is on a whole other level. We're not dealing with some random artist playing at being a "weekend esotericist," but with people who have mastered their subject. And I don't even talk about their music (seriously, have you ever heard something like this ? If yes, pleeeease, tell me !!! I asked the bot, he gave me some great artists, but... I don't know if I'm mad or no, but there's really "something more" with BoC).

At least, if I'm to believe my analysis, since from what I've gathered, the message I skim in Inferno, and elsewhere, is coherent. It talks about the evolution of humanity, the traumas it inflicts upon itself and those inflicted upon it by the elites, and it talks about the end times, the coming of Christ, and so on.

It's not like they've made a patchwork of disparate elements that don't fit together. For example, in Inferno, there's Naraka, which draws on Eastern traditions. But I see something coherent in that! A universalist message: The various religious and spiritual currents are all talking about the same thing. Also : this view (Naraka) implement kind of "corrections" to the Christian dogmas (I really don't believe in eternal hell, I think it's Christian / Muslim things to "civilize" people).

At least, that's how I see it. But I know I don't hold the truth, that I could be wrong about anything. I don't define what is BoC, I only gather correlations and make assumptions. Exactly what they incite us to do with their work...

And I'm glad that among the people who have read me here, there are some who find it resonates with them. That's the main goal. And I'm sorry for the loss of time for the people who read this without finding anything interesting for them.

Cheers!