Changes

In an interview with Zane Lowe[http://itunes.appleLizzy Goodman posted on nin.com/us/post/sa.24db9a20-59e3-11e8-8359-8a5db8dbb4ce?app=music&ign-itsct=be1_con_zan&ign-itscg=10703], Reznor somewhat explained explains the trilogy’s concept underlying each piece of the trilogyin detail:<blockquote>"Let me drop some cryptic information on you. The idea of this three EP thing was all to find truth in us figuring out who we are now and how we fit into the world. The first EP, ''Not The Actual Events'', was meant to be from a personal angry self-destructive reflection on that question and defining how I feel in a world, that feels stranger, part of that’s aging. Part of that’s because the world is getting weirder. Finding your place in a world that looks different every day little bit changes and reacting to that in the first EP through anger and self-destruction and setting a match to your life.

<blockquote>"But to be clear, the record isn’t about Trump, it’s about making sense of the world. The second EPfirst record, ''Add ViolenceNot the Actual Events'', was meant more of an internal fantasy of what if I lit a match to my life and just embraced burning the same questionwhole fucking thing down. But looking for answers externally. Maybe it’s because You know? All of this is an illusion and there’s comfort I really should be dead or lying in a ditch somewhere. Who I ''really'' am is an addict thatself-destructs. Maybe there’s That’s my true nature and this is an illusion and some borrowed time. It wasn’t a pleasant thing, but it felt like, that’s a reason story to tell. And if felt like something I needed to internally process. And that supported other things feel kind that were interesting to us like aggressive music and a sense of the self-referential, looking back at other albums and pilfering bits of crazy the art design to confuse people and also because I was thinking about those records. To try picking up a guitar, which I told myself I would never do again for whatever reason and finding, you know what? It sounds fucking good. Listening back and going, you know what? That was a good song from 25 years ago, it’s not bad to play something like that I’m insane. There are no rules. That was the first record. 
It wasn’t fully mapped out but it was meant to feel like if we broke up one big record – if it was ''Downward Spiral'', which has acts, if we do an album like that I’m , but release one act at a time, it will be more immediate and the level of adrenaline and momentum will be higher. And maybe it will be consumed in a situation that’s insaneway that feels more digestible to an outside world that doesn’t have long attention spans anymore.<br>And with With the third EP which has grown into an LP (second one, ''Bad WitchAdd Violence''). It , the idea was coming , loosely, to one final look at that question from rejecting what EP number two sayszoom out, to be more global and it wasn’t an easy answer… The entire system has to imply that maybe we’re all in a simulated reality. And that might introduce the concept of meaninglessness but also provide a much more bleak and pessimistic outlook and I want safe container to explain why everything feels off.  By the time we got to say too much because the third one, we had an idea in mind but it gives away kind of felt … rehearsed. Predictable. In the end, what the thing isfelt true was to say that we as a society and as a species are probably an accident, a mutation. But it wasn’t necessarily Really what we thought it are is fucking animals. And the illusion was going enlightenment. The more we’ve connected with each other the dumber we’ve gotten and the more we decide we want to be when we startedkill each other. We’re not some elevated transcendent beings, we’re bacteria in a jar. I thought wanted the art direction of Bad Witch to feel like shadows on a cave wall and we’re trying to figure out what it was is and really there’s no nice, clean, safe scientific explanation. We’re just an accident. String theory and quantum physics is a fucking trick. And we’re not going to go more science fictionsuddenly elevate ourselves into transcendent beings. We’re kidding ourselves. I don’t really know this will be an unsatisfying conclusion for some people. It isn’t what they want. They want it to overwhelm you with cleverness be full matrix virtual reality, and deep diving and part this is the opposite of that felt like an arms race , this is dirt and it also felt like a cop outbroken computer chip and everything you believe in is really just bullshit."</blockquote>