I think a problem I have with the West is that people seem to think everything created needs to have a meaning. Books, poems, movies, video games, painting, drawing, digital art, music... you name it. Outside of the classroom, I often notice this when listening to Dir en grey with friends around. They'll ask about the current song I'm playing, curious, and once I give basic details about the name and who it's by, their next question is, "so what does the song mean?" Now, some Dir en grey songs certainly have meaning, the most straightforward perhaps being songs like "mazohyst of decadence," which is pretty blatantly from the POV of an soon to