I Cut People | Farewell, Reality or How to Philosophize with Nothing Left

Album Year: 2017

Farewell, Reality or How to Philosophize with Nothing Left is the third installment in a series of cut-ups deep in the throes of social angst and isolation. Optimistic tendencies are sprinkled throughout and counterbalanced by a hefty dose of pessimism. Rather than relying on one or the other, optimism and pessimism are treated as equals, both necessary to construct a healthy state of being in a digital world in which our sense of reality is on the verge of collapse. The title of this project, which is a play on Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, describes having no objects to help one prove the hollowness of current ideologies as technology has obscured our sense of truth. We’re left waiting until society crumbles to validate foundational falsehoods and instability.

Awareness, solidarity, and enlightenment are encouraged while overcoming a constant influx of disinformation. Viewing and approaching life in its concreteness rather than the modern approach through abstractification, we begin to see its uniqueness.  After an unstoppable array of chaotic offenses, the album’s finale reminds the listener about choice, something that in a world of mostly answers and the illusion of a whirlwind of options, is becoming obsolete.

“To will oneself free is also to will others free.”
– Simone de Beauvoir

“There are more idols in the world than there are realities: that is my ‘evil eye’ for this world, that is also my ‘evil ear’…”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

 

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Album Art

Track Listing:

1. Hopeless Forever
2. I Am Infinite
3. Free Speech, Motherfucker
4. Secret Lives of the Super Disturbed
5. They-self
6. So Emotional
7. We are Counting Down
8. Remove Me
9. The Return
10. Our Digital World
11. Draining Our Being (My Retirement)
12. It’s Over
13. Wild Theories
14. Farewell, Reality
15. Memories, No Cameras

Samples
All samples stolen from television news programs, commercials, pharmaceutical ads, talk shows, dramas, christian programs, reality tv.