Around two hundred thousand years ago, humans evolved out of Africa and set off on a journey across the Earth, reaching almost every inch that was habitable. Despite this being the case, civilization has, historically, been around for only twelve thousand years. Since then, humans have gained an understanding of the world through technological advancements and communication with one another, which is essentially the epitome of modern civilization. In their music video, "Right in Two" the band Tool and animators at noBrain show the dark reality of civilization's history.  They argue that humans abuse their God-given free will to satisfy their own selfish desires. By watching this music video, one can draw a parallel between humanity in the real world and humanity in the animation.  This can be done by understanding the musicality, allusions, and art style choices given by the artists. These ideas together illustrate the past, present and future of humanity. The way they send their message is important because by using clever artistic styles paired with impressive animation the musicians and artists can help communicate their thoughts to an audience across the world.

The animators chose their video to be set in a barren desert, where a camera quickly zooms in on a man on the ground. The speed that the camera travels at emphasizes the vastness of the desert.  This gives the viewer a surprise as it zooms in on the man. Regaining consciousness and seemingly unharmed, the man picks himself up and begins walking. The animator’s choice of clothing reinforces the eerie feeling one might get and raises the question, as to why would a man in the desert be wearing a plain white t-shirt and blue jeans. The claymation man's poor choice of clothing for a desert causes the viewer to wonder how he got there and more importantly why he was unconscious. The man comes to a stop when he notices a small blob on the ground, moving around as if it is alive. After he picks it up, he pokes it which causes the blob to form a cone shape, and then a sphere. The artist’s choice to animate the blob as a cartoon rather than the same art style as the man highlights the fact that the blob is unordinary, perhaps out of this world. Once the sphere forms, he strikes the newly formed planet with his fingers.  Then from the ground a tree is spawned, followed by many more. A man and a woman, much like Adam and Eve, spawn from the ground alongside the trees.  They pull themselves head-first from the “Earth.” Unlike the original Adam and Eve’s home, noBrain’s version of Eden is not plentiful with fruit or vegetation. In fact, the artists leave this out to create gloomy setting for what is about to happen. Making use of many dark colors and having the landscape colored the same as the desert creates an unsettling mood. The reason for creating the mood is displayed when the first man to live sees another man with another woman and strangles him out of jealousy.  Not even seconds later, he drags the second woman by the head and orders other humans to build a house for him. The creator of this new Earthlike planet seems slightly unnerved by his creation as new houses are built beside the first one, which presumably are made under control of the same man who murdered someone. Disturbed by what he sees, the creator rotates the Earth, only to find something much more disturbing.

At this point the viewer can draw similarities between the story from the video and the story of Genesis in the Bible. Following the Genesis scene, the creator peers through the clouds to find two armies of primitive tribesmen about to clash. One side wears fur hats with horns on them and wield axes while the other side wears nothing on their heads but carry spears and shields.  The creator of this new world sees the two sides about to clash over a meaningless squabble since they only look different but are the same on the inside.  He raises his hand to get their attention and put a stop to their fighting before it begins.  This only raises more conflict when he accidentally brings the idea of religion into the mix. The animators use the concept of religion in their video to demonstrate how humans are destructive towards each other. One side constructs an idol of the creator’s hand while the other makes an eyeball.  When the leaders of the two sides see the idol of the opposing army they appear to be outraged by what they see and an all-out battle ensues.  This quite accurately depicts many religious wars that have been fought in the real world.  The Crusades were fought as a way of taking back the Holy Land of Jerusalem from the Islamic people who lived there.  The Crusades are a perfect real world example of the fight depicted in the video because if one looks into the history of both Christianity and Islam, they both worship the exact same God but only see him differently because of their differing culture. One could say that the animation's war is a perfect representation of the Crusades because they see the same God differently.  The armies in this video fight for what seems like no reason to the viewer since they are worshipping the same creator.  The hand and the eyeball both come from the creator who made their world.  

The creator turns the world yet again to escape the sight of his creations slaughtering each other.  What he sees on the other side of the world is not much better.  He now sees what appear to be box-like cows in horrible living conditions being overfed and then slaughtered inhumanely.  The cow meet is then conveniently boxed and delivered right to the people of this world who then eat it without question.  This draws a comparison from the meat industry of the real world.  It is not a stretch to say that this is an accurate representation of how most farm animals are raised.  Animals are raised in massive groups in abhorrent conditions.  They are then slaughtered and conveniently packaged and placed in grocery stores.  Most of the people buying the meat don’t even give the animal that it came from a second thought.  After all, they were not the ones who had to kill it or do any of the messy work involved in getting it packaged for them.  

It is then brought to the viewers’ attention that war is a massively televised “event” in this world.  Men and women sit at their dinner table watching the brutality of all-out war unfold.  At one point a business man sees that a meter holding a peace sign, a symbol for money, and a television symbol is dropping in the money and television categories but the peace sign is up.  The business man then tells a general to make war so that money and viewership will rise.  It is clear that the business man does not care about peace as long as he has his wealth.  As the war begins the creator lays his hand down in an attempt to stop the war but the beings on the planet simply build over it.  After he removes his hand he sees one of the soldiers copulating with a battlefield nurse.  The soldier spots the creator and flips him off.  This shows that modernity has drawn the people of the world away from the creator who they once worshipped.  This is true of the real world as well.  In modern times religion is not as important as it used to be even fifty years ago.

Then over the battlefield the creator sees a strange satellite.  He tugs on the string that has it connected to the planet and spins the world to what looks like a futuristic city scape.  Upon looking into a window he sees women strapped into chairs giving birth and constantly being impregnated over and over.  The babies are dropped immediately onto a conveyor belt and are sorted based on if they are an anomaly or not.  An anomaly child is seen being dropped off the conveyor belt and it is crushed to death.  The creator decides he has had enough of what these people are doing and he destroys a satellite that is controlling a group of men.  An amalgamation of the general and multiple business men then appear and send a new satellite and attack the creator.  He bats away their attack and goes so far as to try and rip them from the world to leave it a better place.  When he attempts this the creature attacks and the creator is pulled towards the world which then climbs up his arm and consumes him entirely.  This part of the video can be seen as a warning.  If the human race stays on the same track then it is almost certain that they will be ruled by those with money and armies instead of those who have the best interest of humanity in mind.  In the video it also seems that part of the warning has come true.  In the modern education system children who are seen as “anomalies” are told that the things they want to do are stupid and will get them nowhere.  Children in the modern education system are molded into cookie cutter designs of what the government has decided they should be.  If the world is not careful then it will not be long before every man, woman, and child are controlled by corporations and violent dictators.

The band Tool seems to be trying, in their own way, to warn the human race. Maynard James Keenan, the writer of the song sings: "Angels on the sideline puzzled and amused. Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused. Don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around? Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys, where there's one you're bound to divide it right in two." By listening to the lyrics of the song, one can confirm that Maynard is alluding to Genesis, because of his reference to Eden. He eloquently asks "Why did Father give these humans free will?" implying that they are not fit to use it. He reinforces his argument by saying "Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground. Silly monkeys, give them thumbs, they forge a blade and where there's one they're bound to divide it right in two." The timing of this verse is important because as he says this, the two armies are about to clash. His line "over pieces of the ground" shows how ridiculous it is that humans kill each other over land. The song finishes with the line "Angels on the sideline again benched along with patience and reason. Angels on the sideline again, wondering when this tug of war will end." When he says Angels, he is referring to the creator. Notice that the repetition of the line "Angels on the sideline" shows the creator's different perspective on the world than it did in the beginning. First, the angels were "puzzled and amused" and now they are "wondering when this tug of war will end." This shows that the creator regrets making the world.

Tool's song "Right in Two" is their way of showing humanity the ridiculousness of their nature.  They start the video by showing in a caricature like way the ridiculous squabbles of history and how awful the modern world can be.  By the end they are issuing a warning to humanity to think for itself and not to allow others to do their thinking for them.  This video is a way of conveying a message of danger to the human race and it is their choice whether they listen or not.
