I remember reading that the singer was freestyling random lyrics when trying to come up with a song, and this was the result. He also is saying “It’s there” instead of “it’s DARE”
Almost. He was getting ready to record and he was asking for more mix or volume in his cans, saying “keep coming up, keep coming up, keep coming up, it’s there.”
in the past I wondered if it were just edgy fantasy-lyricalism, but I hadn’t been as overtly aware of the TREACLES at the time. with updated knowledge, the lyrics nearly make me wince
Oh wow, that’s just mask off technofash at this point. Was that anyone else, I’d think it’s just a stylistic choice to sing about a dystopia, but given her connections to people who actually want to build the Torment Nexus…
Lifted lyrics from youtube comments, with commentary:
I wanna be software
Upload my mind
Take all my data
What will you find?
A disturbing rejection of humanity.
And a disturbing invitation for data harvesting.
I wanna be software
Binary heart
Infinite options
State of the art
A cry for help, for less emotion ?
I wanna be software
I wanna be code
Digital dancing
Upload my soul
Nitpicking, but code is also mere text.
A call for sweet eternal digital un-death.
I wanna be software
The best design
Infinite princess
Computer mind
I don’t know that I would trust mortal hands to the design of souls.
Isn’t being a princess as you live enough?
I wanna be software
Live in the cloud
Fictional system
Tell me how
Perhaps forgetting that the cloud is very real, not so ethereal and/or without impact/reliance on the “real” world.
[…]
I wanna be, wanna be, software
What will you find? (x4)
You can write me, you can be soft(ware)
You can make me however you like (x4)
You can write me, you can design
You can make me however you like (x2)
Song disturbingly in a electro “love song” lyric style (I hope i’m wrong).
Is this a “Please make me into your robot girlfriend” song ?
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Aella has hyper original and creative thoughts. It’s the most rare and trait, and u cannot train to get it, therefore it is the most valuable one. The thing that usually makes a high iq person actually exceptional is the extreme limits of creativity. Also don’t be rude.
IIRC the association between libertarianism and conservatism is somewhat recent? Wikipedia is saying libertarianism was born out of left wing politics.
That being said the treacles libertarianism is not that at all.
@swlabr If by 'recent' you mean 'since the foundation of the Libertarian Party'. Libertarians were all-in for Reagan, their poster boy Ron Paul caucused with the GOP, etc etc etc.
Yes that’s more or less what I meant. I am not a pro historian or anything but libertarianism pre-dates the libertarian party. My understanding is that the origins of libertarianism only bear a passing resemblance to the modern formulation.
(If it is sounding like I am defending libertarianism just fucking kill me)
You’d be surprised how big the Libertarian/UBI overlap is.
At the most basic level, there’s a pretty core libertarian belief that the government can’t or shouldn’t make decisions and individuals can or should. In this framework, giving money away to individuals will lead to it being spent better than if it was used for actual welfare. So although Libertarians tend to be anti-welfare, sometimes they make an exception for UBI, because it’s still a free market solution.
Some progressives like it to, of course. Means testing is a burden, and limiting what you can spend (for example) WIC on can feel a lot like haves trying to control the lives of the have-nots.
For TREACLES though, I think there’s a more pathological element at play: they plan to put everyone out of work and need a way to avoid a torches and pitchforks scenario.
I’d like to believe that it’s a temporarily embarrassed millionaire coping mechanism: “I will of course come out on top as an alpha techbro philosopher-king, but while I’m in the process of being recognized you should all definitely give me money. Better not make it conditional on me doing anything.”
Whereas I prefer forging a clear path to long-term happiness for humans by getting them all past the demographic transition, improving quality of life and reducing the numbers by making it less attractive to have many kids. I suspect the best way to do that involves regulating capitalism down to a nice incentive system.
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