Devo is the de-evolution band, and the entire album was made with the help of focus groups. This provides a context for the lens in which we look at this song. It describes overpowering stimuli that cannot be found in nature, a phenomena found (and exploited) in modern society, which subsequently gnaws away at free will ("I see a fork in the road..."). There's a word for this, and it's well-studied: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
Devo is the de-evolution band, and the entire album was made with the help of focus groups. This provides a context for the lens in which we look at this song. It describes overpowering stimuli that cannot be found in nature, a phenomena found (and exploited) in modern society, which subsequently gnaws away at free will ("I see a fork in the road..."). There's a word for this, and it's well-studied: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
More on this concept, and how it relates to marketing and 'devolution' can be found here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/h3/superstimuli_and_the_collapse_of_western/