As Tadhq pointed out, "not much nourished by modern love" is from a Leonard Cohen song. In that song, Queen Victoria is an obvious symbol of the Victorian age, an era known for its emotional and sexual restraint.
The Victorian era is also when the Industrial Revolution occurred, which marks the beginning of modernity and helped to create the consumer culture we have in the western world. Today, the new modernity in the western world tends to focus on upward mobility, independence, and freedom. Having such a focus on those values has had a huge impact on how we express and react to true intimacy.
HD captures that perfectly with the lyrics: "So i told her that everything she does is divine and she replied with a blank expression an object lesson in making me feel benign Then whispered, 'independence and indifference are the wings which allow the heart to fly. In the next stanza, we see a kind of existential terror set in when the narrator is struck with the realization of what the costs of our "freedom" really is: "And with the right revolting piety of tone, the word 'freedom' can make you want to lock yourself in a deep dark dungeon.
I swear, I wish I could be less aware. However, the narrator isn't able to ignore his own feelings. We just end up pushing others away in order to reinforce our false ideas of independence that modernity has taught us. The very last line "but that's not why I'm lonely To the narrator, it's very obvious that the cause of his loneliness is not his own doing, but representative of larger social problems. However, because people love to cling to their consumerism and modernity, if you speak out against this, people will do everything they can to make you feel like it's your problem to discount your feelings.
He also said that at the time he wrote it, he was listening to a bunch of Leonard Cohen and reading a bunch of philosophy about humanity, meaning, etc, and at the end of it all just thought "Fuck, I still feel like this". General Comment I know this song isn't political, but these two lines Especially after the political commentary in the first two songs on the album "I had a lovely brunch with Jesus Christ Vote Obama in '08! Archaia Sophia. Artists - H. Rate These Lyrics.
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