ROGER WATERS -- Amused To Death

From the album “Amused To Death“, 1992. 2015 reissue. From Conservapedia: “This song is the last song on the album, coming after “It’s A Miracle“. In this song, there are people asking doctors why they are sick. It also asks why is TV so important, and why we keep it so high in our lives (“What is the heart life of a colour TV/What is the shelf life of a teenage queen“). It also says that we are becoming more emotionless as time goes on (“Attracted by the peeling away of feeling“). Then, it goes on to having aliens coming down to earth and finding Earth completely dead. The aliens are confused and conduct many tests, which is futile at figuring out any information. (They ran down every lead/They repeated every test/They checked out all the data on their lists/And then the alien anthropologists/Admitted they were still perplexed“.) It then says that the only reason is that, “This species has amused itself to death“, referring to humans being stuck to the TV and other media.“