Dehumanised

Dehumanised takes a look at the effects of employ­ment on the mental state of those who get forced into it against their will. The feeling is that you'll never ac­comp­lish any­thing again. The reason is you're only there, and by ex­ten­sion only alive, to drive numbers up. If you don't your bal­ance will run out, some­one will evict you for it, and you will die on the streets be­cause trust is a mother­fuck­ing myth and no­body has the morals to let you stay at their houses, IF THEY EVEN HAVE ONE!!! El does not under­stand how that is an ac­cept­able reason to live. "How're you capable of enjoy­ment when you KNOW you can plunge into in­escap­able debt at any time?!!" he asks.

The theme of the all-encom­pass­ing nature of money is pre­va­lent through­out Falsified Necessity; this is just one look at it. You will be miser­able if you allow that worth­less number as­sign­ed to you against your will to have an effect on what you're "allowed" to do. People's entire lives get de­cided at the end of the last stage of com­puls­ory edu­ca­tion and it's ex­ceed­ing­ly diffi­cult to change that. You may as well be dead in society's eyes be­cause you aren't driving numbers up, through no fault of your own. "Choose your death or say goodbye!!!" The fact this is how society runs en­ables the situ­ation where one single point of fail­ure de­cides how close you are to being killed! There are count­less un­fathom­able ways this can happen, and so you get the lines "I will run the only place you may go / To buy your liter­al exist­ence for today!!" That evolves into the situ­ation the WEF des­crib­ed in an arti­cle they had to delete, and that is ex­pand­ed upon in the next song on the album, Welcome to Their 2030.