Corey Taylor is something of a renaissance man. While he's kept busy fronting Slipknot and spearheading his solo project, the musician's heart remains full of a longing — a hunger — for absolute knowledge.
In a new interview with Loudwire, Taylor discussed the notion that the search for veritable truth in mainstream culture has become all but futile. "One of the things that I miss the most are facts," he opined, "not just contentious opinion or alternative facts or whatever the fuck that shit means."
As the old adage goes, opinions are like assholes. Although it's all in good fun when it comes to your favourite ABBA song, it's more than a little troubling to not know if something that presents itself as fact actually is in today's media climate.
"The fact that we don't have any base level foundation for what is correct and what is not correct and that everything is open to opinion is just horse shit," Taylor said. "And that those opinions are then taken by people who have been made to feel inferior by elitist pricks and they've now taken those opinions and they've cemented them as their own facts and they've passed them off to people who feel the same way."
"The fact that we have no baseline in reality now is terrifying," he continued. "The fact that there's nowhere we can go to find things that we can rely on and the fact that there's no real urgency to do that."
He said, "The fact that there's no real place to find something that is secure and is set in stone. Yes, there may be changes on the different data that comes in, but is something that feels secure. More people are more interested in their own drama and their own bullshit and their own version of conspiracies and ridiculous fucking propaganda that they refuse to see that what they're doing is eating themselves. They're eating their own culture. Whether it's the right and their obsession with the talking heads or the left and their obsession with controlling language and controlling the way that we try to feel about each other and the way that you talk about other fucking people, regardless, it's insane."
Taylor added, "Because of that, I will always have something to bitch about. I will always have something to write about, and I will always have something to rail against."
So even if he only has maybe "another five years left" of "physically touring" the way he does with Slipknot, we can expect this musician to keep raging against the media-illiterate machine for about as much time as we've all got left.
In a new interview with Loudwire, Taylor discussed the notion that the search for veritable truth in mainstream culture has become all but futile. "One of the things that I miss the most are facts," he opined, "not just contentious opinion or alternative facts or whatever the fuck that shit means."
As the old adage goes, opinions are like assholes. Although it's all in good fun when it comes to your favourite ABBA song, it's more than a little troubling to not know if something that presents itself as fact actually is in today's media climate.
"The fact that we don't have any base level foundation for what is correct and what is not correct and that everything is open to opinion is just horse shit," Taylor said. "And that those opinions are then taken by people who have been made to feel inferior by elitist pricks and they've now taken those opinions and they've cemented them as their own facts and they've passed them off to people who feel the same way."
"The fact that we have no baseline in reality now is terrifying," he continued. "The fact that there's nowhere we can go to find things that we can rely on and the fact that there's no real urgency to do that."
He said, "The fact that there's no real place to find something that is secure and is set in stone. Yes, there may be changes on the different data that comes in, but is something that feels secure. More people are more interested in their own drama and their own bullshit and their own version of conspiracies and ridiculous fucking propaganda that they refuse to see that what they're doing is eating themselves. They're eating their own culture. Whether it's the right and their obsession with the talking heads or the left and their obsession with controlling language and controlling the way that we try to feel about each other and the way that you talk about other fucking people, regardless, it's insane."
Taylor added, "Because of that, I will always have something to bitch about. I will always have something to write about, and I will always have something to rail against."
So even if he only has maybe "another five years left" of "physically touring" the way he does with Slipknot, we can expect this musician to keep raging against the media-illiterate machine for about as much time as we've all got left.
