Think back on how life was before the first Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable connected the UK and the US in 1858. Messages & news took days and weeks to arrive.
We were islands of humanity connected only by oceangoing vessels of men. "The telegraph gave us hope....."
"Boys of today write lines...."
Graffiti and the general decline in the quality of a society...arguably more degraded than the rather educated and morally minded populace of the mid 1800s. This despite being connected with instantaneous mass communication between continents.
"The cargo lies in our laps..." "Our MESSAGE will need a ship...."
They have an important message to communicate but it's lost in the waves of meaningless communication of today's society (gossip, lame news etc). They need a SHIP damn it! To cross those "oceans" that can't otherwise be crossed...get their message communicated and HEARD through the waves. Their commentary on the amount of BS that is out there running around the internet and how hard it is to be heard and understood.
Think of how the telegraph and the technological advancements following it gave us an instantaneous news cycle of thing that we really don't care about and have no control over.
"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough." - Thoreau, Walden
Think back on how life was before the first Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable connected the UK and the US in 1858. Messages & news took days and weeks to arrive.
We were islands of humanity connected only by oceangoing vessels of men. "The telegraph gave us hope....."
"Boys of today write lines...." Graffiti and the general decline in the quality of a society...arguably more degraded than the rather educated and morally minded populace of the mid 1800s. This despite being connected with instantaneous mass communication between continents.
"The cargo lies in our laps..." "Our MESSAGE will need a ship...." They have an important message to communicate but it's lost in the waves of meaningless communication of today's society (gossip, lame news etc). They need a SHIP damn it! To cross those "oceans" that can't otherwise be crossed...get their message communicated and HEARD through the waves. Their commentary on the amount of BS that is out there running around the internet and how hard it is to be heard and understood.
Think of how the telegraph and the technological advancements following it gave us an instantaneous news cycle of thing that we really don't care about and have no control over.
"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough." - Thoreau, Walden
This is a fascinating and brilliant song.