Ο τελευταίος στίχος του τραγουδιού προσανατολίζει τους ακροατές για τις προθέσεις του μηνύματος που επιθυμεί να μεταδώσει το τραγούδι: “We need a technology for revolution, not another revolutionary technology”. To videoclip που έχει τον χαρακτήρα μικρού μήκους film το βλέπουμε και το απολαμβάνουμε εδώ.
Το Bandcamp του σχήματος το βρίσκουμε ΕΔΩ.
Οι στίχοι του τραγουδιού:
I just had a painful discussion with me (didn’t miss the irony)
Years & years; conditioning me; ordered to be “free”
Yet it always seemed to me; [a notion so vague and mysterious]
a ruinous quest on the backs of millions
strangers to ourselves [x3] / strangers in our cells [x3]
What is our common tongue? The matching pain that defines us all
Is this our common tongue? A consciousness in silicon?
Monopolize / militarize / narrativize
We connect in cobalt networks; the empire’s thrust
harvested by slaves; in turn harvesting us
Idleness reified to digit & percent
(their) stock-prices chained, to our time spent
Addiction by design / Life in the hive
Yesterday’s selfies / today’s biometric profile
full-time on device / always living my “best life”
maximum screen time / binge-watch ‘till numbness spikes
stolen focus / vacancies of attention
My binary avatar / hanging in suspension
[stimulating] sleep - deprived / force-fed / content spree
Are you still watching the life you could live?
ARE YOU STILL WATCHING? WAKE UP; KEEP WATCHING! CONSUME!
Α digital dementia, a Disorder Republic
“unfiltered” confessions to echo-chambers deemed the public
ambivalence; compulsiveness
curating every word and space
free speech as a fuckin’ PR race
opium then / Tik Tok now
desire’s whip / gratification’s crown
a neurological debris
(floating) alone at seas of algorithms
Digital town squares packed with (individual) shame
what’s the cost of living this way?
Free time / spent it well / Sit /Just sit and watch
Watch others lives / their digital lives / their image
The end of anxiety / stay calm and watch
Let the kids play alone / Leave your friends
/ BE on your own
Share your life / CREATE one to show
Dopamine!
SMILE - Click - Post - Exist
HASHTAG / Put a hashtag / another one
Hashtag real life / Hashtag try to act / Hashtag just alive / Hashtag what the fuck
watch -scroll-Like
Dopamine!
Ask yourself /Is it likable what i do? / Is it likable what i see? / Is it likable to be me?
Scroll and find
A way to exist
Commerce your self
Produce dopamine
Serve your image / Serve their image
Happiness for a sec / Sadness till the end
Consume / Dopamine / Exist
The only way to be real / be you / be part of / exist
Commoditize yourself
Commoditize me
(post / scroll / like / die)
Indulging in narcissistic self-display
Drained; spent, monetized rage
How can I love myself if no-one likes at me?
Attention-seekers in an attention economy
Attention-junkies in an attention economy
scroll / post / like / die
binge / watch / work / die
We need a technology for revolution, not another revolutionary technology
