{Is it wonderful?} Kalopsia QOTSA

Kalopsia

QOTSA

I never lie
To myself
Tonight

Rose, tinted eyes
Colour my sorrow
A shade of wine

Bye bye black balloon
See you real soon
Wave bye bye
Bye bye

Oh why you so sad
What have they done?
Forget those mindless baboons
They're off playing god

Copy cats in cheap suits
All playing it safe
While cannibals with their noose
Consume a parade

Is it wonderful?

Far, far from shore
Land of nightmares
Gone forever more

And I...
That I can't control
I don't even try
Why would I

Oh why the long face
You've got it all wrong
Forget the lead and the rings
We'll choke chain them all

These favour the ones
Who help themselves
The rest feel the sting of the words
As they run
To hell

kalopsia

The term kalopsia comes from the Greek words kalos (beautiful) and opsis (seeing). It is used to denote the aesthetic overrating of sensory, illusory, and hallucinatory phenomena, in the sense that these are perceived as beautiful, friendly, and/or comforting. As indicated by the German-American biological psychologist and philosopher Heinrich Klüver (1897-1979), the * geometric hallucinations occurring in the context of mescaline intoxication tend to be quite indiscriminately described as beautiful. It is this kind of indiscriminate positive valuation which is covered by the term kalopsia. The term is used in opposition to * kakopsia (i.e. seeing things as ugly, sinister and/or menacing).


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