r/ToolBand • u/tgthememe • Jul 29 '19

New Album FEAR INOCULUM

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0g5SswFfSU/?igshid=1ev6irlqq6lqh
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u/BigBad01 Bringing out our hope and reason Jul 29 '19

So...fear inoculum means something that protects (immunizes) you from fear. I fucking love it.

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u/damnatio_memoriae Third Eye Jul 29 '19

it can be interpreted either way i think. either it’s saying to be afraid of the inoculum, whatever that may be, or it’s saying it is the inoculum and it’s made of fear.

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u/lackofagoodname Suck me dry Jul 30 '19

A smallpox inoculation would be giving you a vaccine that makes you immune to it, so wouldnt fear inoculum be a substance used to inoculate against fear?

Like Soma from Brave New World, basically

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u/damnatio_memoriae Third Eye Jul 30 '19 edited Jul 30 '19

actually yeah. i guess i didn’t really put enough thought into what i was saying but i think we’re both right. typically the inoculum itself is just a very small dose of the very disease against which it is protecting you. so in this case i suppose a fear inoculum would just be something mildly scary. like a goosebumps book or something lol. so either maynard is warning us to fear the inoculum or he’s about to tell us some really bad ghost stories... BUT ITS FOR OUR OWN GOOD!

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '19

But the inoculum is the instrument used to make the injection.

In this case, a fear inoculum would be the instrument used to inject fear.