Collective Soul
The World I Know
Let me take you on a trip
around the world and back
and you won’t have to move,
you just sit still
Depeche Mode
World in My Eyes
Mike Michaelson : Christof, let me ask you, why do you think that Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now?
Christof :We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that. 1
The Truman Show
There is no secret stuff here.
It is all to be found if you have the eye to see it,
if you know where to look for it. 2
Porter Sargent
Getting US into war
Feelings are intense,
Words are trivial
Depeche Mode
Enjoy the Silence
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all the kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on
Are we listening
Hymns of offering?
Have we eyes to see
That love is gathering?
The more I stray, the less I fear
And the more I reach,
the more I fade away
Imagine Dragons
Rise Up
Words are meaningless,
and forgettable
Depeche Mode
Enjoy the Silence
All the words that I’ve been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one, into one
So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below
I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend
You could cut ties with all the lies
That you’ve been living in
Third Eye Blind
Jumper
All I ever wanted, All I ever needed,
Is here in my arms
Depeche Mode
Enjoy the Silence
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down
‘Cause it’s the world I know
Oh it’s the world I know
The birds and the bees
they are wise to the lies
So they took to the trees
and took to the skies
Puscifer
The Mission
The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space.
It is the experience of seeing first-hand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, “hanging in the void”, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere.
The effect may also invoke a sense of transcendence and connection with humanity as a whole, from which national borders appear petty. 3
With the birds I’ll share
this lonely view
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Scar Tissue
While almost everyone is taught that the Earth is a sphere with all of us somehow glued to it by gravity, the reality of our circumstance did not really begin to sink in until the famous frame-filling Apollo photograph of the whole Earth—the one taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts on the last journey of humans to the Moon. 4
Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot
From a birds eye view,
I can see it has a
well-rounded personality
Jason Mraz
The World As I See It
Now let your mind do the walking
And let my body do the talking
Let me show you the world
in my eyes
Depeche Mode
World in My Eyes
I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life.
The world, the place you live in, is the sick place.
Seahaven is the way the world should be. 5
Christof
The Truman Show
A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
Aladdin‘s Theme
Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were the Christians or Muslims of an earlier era.
What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority. 6
James H. Billington
Fire In The Minds Of Men
No one to tell us, “no” or where to go
Or say we’re only dreaming
Aladdin‘s Theme
From a distance
the world looks blue and green
Bette Midler
From A Distance
Stick around and you’ll
see what I mean
George Ezra
Shotgun
References:
- Truman Show Transcript
↩︎ - Getting US into war
↩︎ - Wikipedia contributors. “Overview effect.”
↩︎ - Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan
↩︎ - Truman Show Transcript
↩︎ - Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
↩︎ - Truman Show Transcript
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Collective Soul – The World I Know (Official Video)
If he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there’s no way we could prevent him. 7
Christof
The Truman Show
