I am a huge Modest Mouse fan and Brock's lyrics have always shown the meaningless he sees with everything. In the song "The View" from Good News a verse goes:
"For every invention made how much time did we save?
We're not much farther than we were in the cave."
The irony is that somebody who sees so much meaningless in the world vests so much time and energy describing that meaningless. Over the last few years Brock has come to express this irony through sarcasm in his music. That sarcasm shines through in this song.
Before General Relativity, Newton's laws of Gravity were seen as definite yet had holes. 80 years ago Einstien declared light speed a constant yet today there are Scientists that debate that. There is debate about dark energy and whether or not it is real. Point is even within Science there are different schools of thought and everybody thinks that their thinking is correct.
We look at our ipods and miniture cell phones of today and picture how in the near future they will be smaller with more memory, yet we still haven't even returned to the moon. There are all sorts of futurists proposing how the future is going to look however most past futurists were wrong and those who were right were for the most part lucky.
Yet Brock mocks complacency and it's stupid to stop trying. The point is well....there is no point which is what the point of this song is, if that makes any sense! =P
I am a huge Modest Mouse fan and Brock's lyrics have always shown the meaningless he sees with everything. In the song "The View" from Good News a verse goes:
"For every invention made how much time did we save? We're not much farther than we were in the cave."
The irony is that somebody who sees so much meaningless in the world vests so much time and energy describing that meaningless. Over the last few years Brock has come to express this irony through sarcasm in his music. That sarcasm shines through in this song.
Before General Relativity, Newton's laws of Gravity were seen as definite yet had holes. 80 years ago Einstien declared light speed a constant yet today there are Scientists that debate that. There is debate about dark energy and whether or not it is real. Point is even within Science there are different schools of thought and everybody thinks that their thinking is correct.
We look at our ipods and miniture cell phones of today and picture how in the near future they will be smaller with more memory, yet we still haven't even returned to the moon. There are all sorts of futurists proposing how the future is going to look however most past futurists were wrong and those who were right were for the most part lucky.
Yet Brock mocks complacency and it's stupid to stop trying. The point is well....there is no point which is what the point of this song is, if that makes any sense! =P