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Verstehen

from Gran Mal by Gran Mal

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Verstehen is German for "understand". Deeper than that it was an early sociological theory started by Max Weber (VayBer) which was basically about stripping society down to the bare bones and looking objectively at what institutions hold up. Larger ones such as Statist structures and religions are pretty mercurial and are always shifting in values and structure. But the basic fabric of society is really the smaller orinizations like family, community, tribe. We shouldn't be so quick to get caught up in and hung up on the semantic bullshit because that crap is just divisive; we should realize that many people's values are not drastically far apart and that we can find commonplace with most people if we just open a dialouge instead of judge immediately.

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We won't push you away and we won't hold you down
But if you try and fuck with us your body won't be found
Community institution, the only one that lasts
As Empires and Religions fall in the future and the past

Understanding, that's verstehen (oh oh)
Understanding communication (oh oh)
Understanding, that's verstehen (oh oh)
Do you understand what it is I'm saying
I hope so

Shedding all my old skin
Embracing all these new ways
Won't be beat down or betrayed
Because we will win
All prevail
And use our minds
That's what this entails

That's okay if you disagree, I won't fuck with you if you don't fuck with me and my mind.

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from Gran Mal, released May 11, 2012

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