Marilyn Manson - Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis) [Music Video]

“Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)“ is the fifth track on the 2000 release Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death). The song is for the majority, a pun utilized to mock the media’s sole interest in ratings. Narcissus as Narcosis is the title of the chapter four of Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan. The chapter opening paragraph reads: The Greek myth of Narcissus is directly concerned with a fact of human experience, as the word Narcissus indicates. It is from the Greek word narcosis, or numbness. The youth Narcissus mistook his own reflection in the water for another person. This extension of himself by mirror numbed his perceptions until he became the servomechanism of his own extended or repeated image. The nymph Echo tried to win his love with fragments of his own speech, but in vain. He was numb. He had adapted to his extension of himself and had become a closed system. At MTV’s Total Request Live, Marilyn Manson went on to say it was his favorite song off