not. normal. Lyrics

Think yourself a revolutionary?

Now that I've gotten the attention of your dopamine craving

pop song loving

nihilistic money grubbing novelty seeking brain with those first few songs

maybe you can return the favor by listening to a couple things that don't sound good

The way things are is not normal

The way things are, it is not normal

The way things are is not normal

The way things are is not normal

The way things are is not normal

The way things are is not normal

The way things are is not normal

The way things are is not normal

Your mind is not meant to be scattered

Your attention span has been deliberately lowered

And now is being exploited for profit

So I will try to keep this short

You are meant to spend most of your time outdoors

Do you agree?

You are not supposed to sit all throughout the daytime

Do you agree?

Stick with me

If you need to you can watch someone jumping through a Minecraft obstacle course while you listen

But this is important to hear

Your body is supposed to feel good

You are a social animal meant to socialize

We are living in a time unlike any other

But in the jungle it is hard to see

The only way to find our way out

Is to retrace our steps

If you are ever in doubt of whether something is good for you or not

Good for society or not, just consider

What is normal in nature?

What do other mammals do?

How do they live?

What did humans do in the distant past?

How have we strayed off that path?

Retrace our steps

Were humans always this isolated?

No

Did we used to have a monotonous focus on splitting everything down

Into the tiniest pieces in order to find meaning in the whole?

No

How does that even make sense?

Did we have physics back in the hunter gatherer days?

No

But physics is just a story about why things are the way they are

And they had stories about that back then too

The only difference is that back then the stories weren't meaningless stories about atoms and wave functions

They were grand tales of human adventure and triumph and sorrow and grief and they gave us meaning

Listen, physics is cool as fuck

And technology as a whole is cool as fuck

It's crazy what we have developed

It's insanely cool

I just don't know if it's being considered before it's put into place

And I think if we just retrace our steps a little bit

And reconsider some things

We could go down a much different direction with a much brighter future

Listen I'm, I'm not sure what is good

But I'm pretty sure that what is happening right now is bad

And the worst part is that it's getting worse

And the only thing that we can do first, the first way that we can retrace our steps

Is to turn the fuck around