
Date of issue: 29.09.2014
Song language: English
Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? |
Did you know the average person spends 4 years of his life looking down at his |
cell phone? |
Kind of ironic, ain’t it? |
How these touch-screens can make us lose touch |
But it’s no wonder in a world filled with iMac’s, iPads and iPhones |
So many «i"'s, so many selfies, not enough «us"'s and «we"'s |
See, technology |
Has made us more selfish and separate than ever |
Cause while it claims to connect us, connection has gotten no better |
And let me must express first |
An anti-social network |
Cause while we may have big friend lists |
So many of us are friendless |
All alone |
Cause friendships and more broken than the screens on our very phones |
We sit at home on our computers measuring self-worth by numbers of followers |
and likes |
Ignoring those who actually love us |
It seems we’d rather write |
An angry post than talk to someone who might actually hug us |
Am I bugging? |
You tell me |
Cause I asked a friend the other day, «Let's meet up face to face.» |
And said, «Alright. |
What time you wanna Skype?» |
I responded with omg, srs, and then a bunch of smh’s |
And realized what about me? |
Do I not have the patience to have conversation without abbreviation? |
This is the generation of media over stimulation |
Chats have been reduced to snaps |
The news is 140 characters |
Videos are 6 seconds at high speed |
And you wonder why ADD is on the rise faster than 4G LTE |
But, get a load of this |
Studies show the attention span of the average adult today |
Is one second lower than that of a gold fish |
So if, you’re one of the few people or aquatic animals that have yet to click |
off or close this video, congratulations |
Let me finish by saying you do have a choice, yes |
But this one my friends we cannot Auto-Correct — we must do it ourselves |
Take control or be controlled, Make a decision |
Me? |
No longer do I want to spoil a precious moment by recording it with a phone |
I’m just gonna keep them |
I don’t wanna take a picture of all my meals anymore — I 'm just gonna eat them |
I don’t want the new app, the new software, or the new update |
And If I wanna post an old photo, who says I have to wait until Thursday |
I’m so tired of performing in the pageantry of vanity |
And conforming to this accepted form of digital insanity |
Call me crazy but, I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries |
Cause that will mean we’ll be one bar closer — to humanity |
Name | Year |
---|---|
I Quit | 2020 |
Why I Want This World to End | 2014 |
I Am Not a Label | 2015 |