one theme i like in cold reactor is simulacra within simulacra. "everything we love becomes a picture of a simulation" and "see the blue reflection of a world inside a black dimension" are both layered duplicities, shadows of the shadows on the cave wall (and i think it's not a coincidence that the characters in the song quite literally live in a cave). especially that last one -- i think the clear implication here is that if you "look into my jet-electric eyes" as the singer says right before that line, you'll only see a reflection of what he's looking at on his phone. you can't even see the screen itself, you can only see a reflection of the screen, everything at multiple levels of remove through chains of mediation. it's a pretty common theme for EE and one that pops up again in mad stone and it drives me in particular crazy because i think about this stuff all the time










