If mistaking mythology for theology is one thing, and science fiction for theology is another thing, what is mistaking science fiction for science?
I’ve heard three songs off the new Bright Eyes album, and I like all three fine, except for lyrically which suck. let me explain, on a song called “Tourist Trap”, Conor once wrote: “There are people all around but you are gone” and it aches with tenderness. Conor may thing it is the “my heart is like an open door” a coupla lines later, or “traffic like a pack of dogs” earlier. But it is that line. On an Ep cut. big deal, right?
The three songs off The People’s Key? Musically are the equal but are you really in the market for “One for the Fuhrer, one for his child’s bride”? If this has a deeper meaning than bullshit clever cleverness, I am not interested enough to figure it out yet.
Conor is apparently a fan of Ray Kurzweil. I blame Los Angeles. The different between I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Cassadega is the difference between nyc and l.a. -one takes place in the shadow of the remains of the world trade center, the other in a desert where the denizen’s commune with the dead. Take your pick.
The People’s Key? Conor references Philip K. Dick, one of my very favorite American author’s, but, till he lost his mind and died (I read his exegesis, trust me, Dick lost it), he would have sneered his face off at Ray Kurzweil.
Kurzweil is a modern day L. Ron Hubbard but not as smart (his back story needs work). Ray thinks by 2045 artificial intelligence will have overcome human intelligence and that man will have discovered a way to put his consciousness into machines and live for perpetuity throughout the universe.
Anything is possible.
A machine that can feel is hardly revolutionary. Remember Hal? And a machine that is smarter that us? Remember that machine that can beat people at chess? So maybe. But in 35 years? the last major evolution in the species was, what, 5000 years ago. Since then we’ve grown larger thumbs so we can play computer games but that is about it. In 200 years? Maybe. Could be. In 35 years? No.
As far as making people immortal through becoming machines? Anything is possible, but this is not possible with science as we know it today.
So what sorta crackpot writes albums about it? Anyone? Anyone?
you are just trying to sound like you got a point. If you do, I can’t figure out what it is.