By under-counted, I think 2-D means undervalued or not listened to. When you fill the streets, your views will not be underrepresented, as they are now.
When I first saw this word, my first thought was that 'undercounted' is a synonym of 'underrated', or 'undervalued' as you suggested. But then, having looked at the verse, I got unsure that this interpretation is correct. Where should 'they' go, 'filling the streets', if they '
don't know wack'? It's this
unawareness of something that restrains me here.
I'd like to show you the way I interpret the verse. It may be wrong, of course, since I'm not at home in English and I can misunderstand the words, but I'll try because the details of the verse seem to fit together and not to contradict with the video. I think it's the counter-culture ideas that the lyrics should be interpreted through. At least, I find the ideas of the latter and the interpretations on the site Rover gave the link to similar. So here's my interpretation:
The society is rusty. It is described in the cartoon-video as a very high tower. The higher the level of the tower the more wealthy the people situated at this level, as I see it. Also, the tower is ridiculously narrow. I interpret it as narrow-mindedness apt to the tower's inhabitants. Narrow-mindedness causes (or, on the contrary, is caused by) unawareness of what's
really going on, that is, that Money 'eats' its owners, destructs them by making too many harmfull things easily accessible, and makes the whole value system of the people upside-down. Money is the only God here. And the people, being under the spell, do their best to reach this god. They are slaves because they 'don't know wack', i.e. they
don't know they are slaves. They 'fill the streets' every day going to work, serving the god of Money. They do their best working like a camel whose back is almost broken in the first line. And the money system, being interested in keeping people in the 'addicted' position (just like drug dealers are), counts its servants like a farmer counts his chickens I talked about in post 1.
Is this interpretation possible from the standpoint of the language? Is it possible to interpret 'under-counted' the way I did? And what do you think of the interpretation? Does it make sense?
I think he's making a point about freeing ourselves from the social constraints of postmodern capitalist society, and the political systems that govern it.
I agree here. Looking at the song from different angles, we seem to arrive at the same point.
