[Intro]
Therefore take no thought for the morrow
For the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
I spent a long time trying to figure out what that meant too
Because it's another one of those lines that can easily be read as
Pro-grasshopper and anti-ant
Remember the old fable of the grasshopper and the ant? Maybe not
I'm not going to tell it, but the ant works
The grasshopper fiddles
The ant has a pretty good time in the winter, and the grasshopper dies
And so this is like a pro-grasshopper line, but it's not
It says something else, it says that if you orient yourself properly
And then pay attention to what you do every day, that works
That works
That works
That works
Therefore take no thought for the morrow
For the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
I spent a long time trying to figure out what that meant too
Because it's another one of those lines that can easily be read as
Pro-grasshopper and anti-ant
Remember the old fable of the grasshopper and the ant? Maybe not
I'm not going to tell it, but the ant works
The grasshopper fiddles
The ant has a pretty good time in the winter, and the grasshopper dies
And so this is like a pro-grasshopper line, but it's not
It says something else, it says that if you orient yourself properly
And then pay attention to what you do every day, that works
That works
That works
That works
I'm quite enamored of lobsters as some of you might know
Because I found out
This just blew me away when I found it out
Just exactly how much continuity there was in the neural chemistry of human beings, and the neural chemistry of animals
Absolutely staggering
It's the sort of thing that makes the fact of evolution something like self evident
Random mutation, natural selection is the only way you can solve the problem of how to deal with an environment that's
Complex beyond your ability to comprehend
To generate endless variance, because God only knows what the hell's gonna happen next
They'll almost all of them die because they're failures and a couple will propagate
And you know, the environment keeps moving around like a giant snake
You never know what it's gonna do next
And so, the best you can do is say, “Well,”
“Here's 30 things that might work” and
You know 28 of them are gonna perish
Anyways, back to the lobsters
Because I found out
This just blew me away when I found it out
Just exactly how much continuity there was in the neural chemistry of human beings, and the neural chemistry of animals
Absolutely staggering
It's the sort of thing that makes the fact of evolution something like self evident
Random mutation, natural selection is the only way you can solve the problem of how to deal with an environment that's
Complex beyond your ability to comprehend
To generate endless variance, because God only knows what the hell's gonna happen next
They'll almost all of them die because they're failures and a couple will propagate
And you know, the environment keeps moving around like a giant snake
You never know what it's gonna do next
And so, the best you can do is say, “Well,”
“Here's 30 things that might work” and
You know 28 of them are gonna perish
Anyways, back to the lobsters
Okay, so here's a problem
There's a big problem here
The problem is it's true
[Chorus]
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
God only knows why
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
(God only knows why)
There's a big problem here
The problem is it's true
[Chorus]
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
God only knows why
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed
(God only knows why)
I read a lot about
Terrible things that people have done to each other
You just cannot
Even imagine it, it's so awful!
So you don't wanna be someone like that
Now do you have a reason to be?
Yes, you have lots of reasons to be!
God, there's reasons to be resentful about your existence
Everyone you know is gonna die
You too! And there's gonna be a fair bit of pain along the way
And lots of it's gonna be unfair
It's like, yeah!
No wonder you're resentful
It's like act it out, see what happens
You make everything you're complaining about
Infinitely worse!
There's this idea that hell is a bottomless pit
And that's because no matter how bad it is
Some stupid son of a bitch like you could figure out a way to make it a lot worse!
That's what life is like
It's suffering!
That's what the religious people have always said
Terrible things that people have done to each other
You just cannot
Even imagine it, it's so awful!
So you don't wanna be someone like that
Now do you have a reason to be?
Yes, you have lots of reasons to be!
God, there's reasons to be resentful about your existence
Everyone you know is gonna die
You too! And there's gonna be a fair bit of pain along the way
And lots of it's gonna be unfair
It's like, yeah!
No wonder you're resentful
It's like act it out, see what happens
You make everything you're complaining about
Infinitely worse!
There's this idea that hell is a bottomless pit
And that's because no matter how bad it is
Some stupid son of a bitch like you could figure out a way to make it a lot worse!
That's what life is like
It's suffering!
That's what the religious people have always said