Aesop Rock - Mindful Solutionism (Official Video)

LISTEN/BUY: VINYL/CD/MERCH: SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE: VIDEO CREDITS: Creative Director: Justin “Coro” Kaufman Art Direction: Justin “Coro” Kaufman Executive Producer: Melissa Lee Producer: Danielle Helsaple 2D Animation: Justin “Coro” Kaufman 3D Scenes: Justin “Coro” Kaufman & Heroic Studios (Head of CG: Sandy Heslop // Trailer Production Team Lead: Sergey Egorov // Lead Producer: Sasha Polishchuk // Team Manager: Yanina Kartun // CG Generalist: Danil Stepanenko // CG Generalist: Vitalii Biletskyi // Producer: Nelli Shmanova) Editing: Justin “Coro” Kaufman SONG CREDITS: Written and produced by Aesop Rock Cuts by Forest Pond LYRICS: 2.5 million years ago, a friend of mine Made a tool from a stone and defended his tribe It’s technology, sorry for the technical term It’s a wheel, then a fire and the rest is a blur Throw a theorized plot in the pot with applied science Let it sit, I bet it streamlines your environs What’s a resource local to the grotto The method isn’t free until the mechanism follow That’s technology, innovate a difference A feat of engineering, a system made efficient There isn’t a condition, complication, or revision Where the answer ain’t to build a more sophisticated widget Idget, tired of games, Bronze Age, Iron Age Weaponry in stellar form, shelter finer by the day Live stock and vegetables in rows behind the hideaway Mesopotamia out the muhfuckin’ lion cage If it’s out of the bag, then it’s out of bag If it’s out of the bag, then it’s out of bag If it’s out of the bag, then it’s out of bag Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat You take a lever and a pulley and a winch and a wedge You get a labyrinth of aqueducts and pyramid steps Before the Jesus, Archimedes on that miracle tech Year zero, you could feel the future rearing its head Put a shoe on a horse, shoot a man with a gun Steampower, bifocals, and mechanical funk Manipulate electricity, no it can not be done Yes it can, ain’t a dam that could cancel the flood True to human curiosity, at the tree of knowledge Pulling genies out of bottles, stealing from Leonardos Plane train auto, hauling space age cargo Bizarro technology, everyday is tomorrow Telegraph, telephone, you could flirt with Doris In Poughkeepsie from a cozy geodesic dome in Sydney You can write a letter with no paper You could fix anything with a laser If it’s out of the bag, then it’s out of bag If it’s out of the bag, then it’s out of bag If it’s out of the bag, then it’s out of bag Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat You could get a robot limb for your blown off limb, Later on the same technology could automate your gig As awesome as it is Wait It gets awful, you could split a atom willy-nilly If it’s energy that can be used for killing then it will be It’s not about a better knife, It’s chemistry and genocide And medicine for tempering the heck in the projector light Landmines, agent orange, leaded gas, cigarettes Cameras in your favorite corners, plastic in the wilderness We can not be trusted with the stuff that we come up with The machinery could eat us, we just really just love our buttons Ummm... technology, focus on the other shit 3D-printed body parts, dehydrated onion dip You could buy a jet-ski from a cell phone on a jumbo jet T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y, it’s the ultimate If it’s out of the bag, then it’s out of bag If it’s out of the bag, then it’s out of bag If it’s out of the bag, then it’s out of bag Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat FOLLOW AESOP ROCK: \ #aesoprock #mindfulsolutionism #integratedtechsolutions #its