False universality is what rubs the edges off all individual kinds of culture and takes as its basis the mediocre average. With true universality, on the other hand, art, for example, would become even more artificial than it is in its pure state, poetry would become more poetical, criticism more critical, history more historical, and so on. This universality can come into being when the simple light of religion and morality touches a chaos of combinative wit and fertilizes it. Then the most sublime poetry and philosophy burst into flower by themselves.
Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us.
"Californication" is about the dark underbelly of Hollywood and how it destroys just as fast as it creates. the lyrics mention Kurt Cobain, silver-screen actors, plastic surgery, the murder of actress and playmate Dorothy Stratten, and teen pregnancy
"Santeria" tells the story of a man considering Santeria to get revenge on his unfaithful girlfriend and her lover. Santeria is a Caribbean religion similar to Haitian vodou. despite racist depiction in media, both practices focus on praying to and communicating with spirits/deities for help, protection, and guidance