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Just realized the last three tracks on Weezer's return-to-form album Everything Will Be Alright in the End form a highly condensed and abstracted three-act recounting of the Odyssey

"I. Wasteland" represents the Trojan War
"II. Anonymous" represents Odysseus's journey homeward, especially his encounter with the Cyclops, though it replaces him giving his name as "Nobody" with the similar "Anonymous"
"III. Return to Ithaka" represents, well... Odysseus's return home to Ithaca. That one is pretty unambiguous.




The intended interpretation is probably a stylized 0 for Off and a 1 for On, but I can read way more into it.

The circle can represent closed loops or repeating cycles, or even the orb of the globe.

The line can represent linear time, forward progress, or a wall blocking progress, or even an incredibly simplified depiction of a human standing.

Together, they can represent a duality between opposites but merged into one, like yin and yang, or like the Hegelian concept of synthesis. Cycles and endings; humanity and nature.