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S7E12 - Earth: The Oldest Computer by Childish Gambino

2021-02-23

<p>We continue our season-long examination of Because The Internet with “Earth: The Oldest Computer.” Gambino and The Boy grapple with the meaning of life and our time on Earth at The Boy’s moment of death in the BTI screenplay.</p>

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Johnny I go there. Love played out across the screenplay musical projects in the public sphere in a grand performance, emphasising the power of love, but also the limits of our time here. Just like the high Drugs at his metaphorically intertwined with the relationship outside forces will prevent their law from being eternal things are can the world and that prevents then from staying in the euphoric bliss relapsed left off. In the script with the scene, which the boy and I owe me, lose their connection the boy headed out to oversee a drug deal at the mansion, Naomi warned him not to go by does, anyway, the script hills that they'll never see each other again, and then to a scene of the boy driving down the item. Highway. Listening to the song, Danny Lover by young son as this is my life well imagine and twenty three
team? This is an early reference, a young thugs who had just been signed by gucci made. The title of this too Danny Glover indicates like lover may have chosen to include in the script. for nearly his entire career. People have confused Donald, however, as either Danny Lovers, son or as the elder, clever himself, even though have no relation whatsoever now no download of love or how many people still think Danny Is your dad or I wonder if he hears that from me like. If he's just like this guy cursing yeah, I mean it's funny and people think he's my dad, which is really funny. Besides the tracks minced, both the boy and dollar, clever, the notion, a fake father. A false inheritance also fits the magically the scene, the boys had back to the mansion. A symbol of inherited constructed identity and an attempt make money and maintain the lifestyle afforded by his father. Shady dealings, and given that we know the boy will never see Naomi again we're tense.
What might happen. The upbeat flow and cadence of you, third and play the boys feeling good. But that's going to end soon boy pulls up to the mansion, the script notes playing the song made in America by Conny Western Jazzy featuring Frank Ocean sleep, sleep, sweet Jesus made in America examines black history in America. Franco compare civil right there, icons to the biblical Mary, Joseph and Sweet baby Jesus and notes with pride that made it in America, the song the fuels triumphant as if the strike a black Americans and resilience is victory and that now, they ve made it as in David, give the necessary freedom and equality. the boys things, his own altered version of the hook: sweet cream of Arta, sweet mozzarella, sweet Jesus their made in America sweet bull of cheese it at first. This is course a funny plan words, but remember
the boys of the mansion to make money, cheese, chatter, and evoking money as a replacement of civil rights and religious icons. The boys Oak illuminates the way our system has commodified and replace eating a survival need with economic struggles we ve got more than enough food for everyone. We can make the table bigger systems isolate and separate instead of United as Glover can t used to try and highlight the ways are system needs to change. This job, which is a quick we might miss. It shows that the is caught up in the rat race. Trying to money and game freedom. But as you look, to the door of the mansion. He sees men with guns and he knows it I'm is up. You see the jokes on us weak get out of the rat race until we remove the racetrack until then were all trap. racing loops trying to get ahead and some have distinct disadvantages. The guys mentioned or see the boys alone and pull out their guns. it's here that were instructed to play, because the internet's next track, the subject
episode today, earth the oldest computer, the latter night, first, the oldest Peter was produced by childish, Gambino and leave the gourd said the track features of four corpse Russian played on a synthesizer and later accompanied by a foreign the floor, danced style based from true to its dance, music. Invalid is the song? Is one big build up trading too Jim throughout until finally explodes, and we can't help it of our bodies and satisfaction of this release. It makes for a perfect if unexpected soundtrack too Ten seen between the boy and the arm, drug dealers,
and soon night. can be no begins the track singing. Now I don't want to see an era see now they want to live for ever and ever maybe the last night, the excess Jill stresses of the human experience have been alluded to throughout because the internet here they are stated quite plainly, Gambino doesn't want to die. He fears death This fear that unites us is a conscious species in error. Is a period of history typically defined by a particular characteristic. Gambino wishes to move beyond that. To experience the growth change and progress that occurs across multiple areas, besides the passage of time,
This also speaks to his widespread rejection of labels and desire to. experience. Freedom beyond current limits to exist beyond definition, His pronunciation of era, also insinuates. The hominid error, which relates to the out of web language throughout ATI, forces his desire to not see an end or death, maybe last night refers to both the eminent death. The boy faces in the script as well the general feeling that any day could be our last there's an input. asian here and throughout BT, that we need to understand how to act. Given this incontrovertible truth as lovers in interviews at the time we could die at any moment. I love away. He was like he's like you know, we're all gonna die like like that, like no one less like that, we have like the ability to do then. No one does it. It's crazy is like a really weird,
what's the time in piston that I was going to know the whole the fact that we hear when the world something else, could we even need a call back out with the guys nobody was a puppy, no begins wrapping when the world was discern with this. In that I was young. no to hold back here Gambino speaks retrospectively about his inability to hold back, which could refer to its own public presence his own social media activity or the trolling of the boy. But as we see, and he's growing up and realising more of what's going on around him. He wraps. Now we hear the world is something else. taking on the universal perspective, the we
Something else is the current condition we find ourselves in props. to the new environment of the post internet world, the vague qualities exacerbated by the following lines. We could leave any day and call for help, leaving here, could be a reference to death or suicide as a way out of the problems that we face. This idea in turn, a call for help both enter of saving the individual as well as this for something else. Some better way to live. Get me outta than issues a statement of unified power. We were gods. Nobody was above me in a single breath. speaks both to the ego of our technological capacity to build worlds for ourselves as wells, mass egalitarianism that were all equally gods. the we and me here- are interchangeable, as be no assumes a universal applicator status. We covered and exploration of because the internet secret track lovers. the act of creation as the spark of God by creating, something and making connections, we can experienced
I'm in power of God, how It seems that, in this instance, campaigners wrapping about using this power to put once individual self forward ass conveyed by the nobody was above me, then continues to prioritize this fabrication of himself with the string of similes that a my chest like adultery that ain't my chest put your fist up that a on my chest like a chipmunk, Alvin Theatre, First, he references the scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a classic novel grappling with societal, shaming and the Institute of Marriage and the new a woman gives birth to a bastard. Child is condemned society and then is banished forced to wear the letter, a as a constant reminder of her adulterous status. The EIA my chest put your fist up refers to end key a state of society without authority or government. Video lodge the pursuit of equality and freedom without bounds. Having connected
Two images challenging the structure of our society. The am I just like a chipmunk appears to be a punch line. Referencing the cartoon musicians Alvin in the chipmunks avenue. The chipmunks was created as a novelty, acted nineteen, fifty eight their high pitched, bet up singing eventually becoming the term chipmunk voiced. This technique has been a d did by other musicians for different effects and perhaps most relevant too clever, for the basis of Conny was early music, which is affection. described as chipmunk saw. You can't tell me disregard this possible reference. Giving lovers constant claim of being Conny son as we covered throughout the season. It's a reckoning at the truly infinite and disparate influences that shape or we are from classic literate We read in high school to political ideologies to cartoons which also have been as in therapy tie its wild to think of ever That plays a role in shaping, for we are that brand. identity so to speak as indicator, by the various aid on his chest that seems to be
exploration of the way various entities affect the way we come across to the world of the way we claim influences and Glover here is tying them. together setting the stage for his life flashing before his eyes. At the moment of his possible death, Gambino chinese wrapping breathing Bree. Thou me more, Sensation. Breath is a call for presence in mindfulness summit, We do and were in a panic which ties into the script and the boy being held up by a gunman, but given the likely since two colonies, early music in the previous line, This also seems to be a reference to the song breathing breathe out, featuring ludicrous from commies debut up on the college drop out. there was wrong, we may allow the second generation of campaigners. Breathing breathed out is followed by never mind can be. Recognizes that he can't stop that history. Its incessant and it's his time to go. This coincide. But the boys impending doom. It was time,
Number nine lives feline with a death wish the boys, reaching the end of his time, unable to escape the death at his doorstep. of the old saying cats have nine lives. Gambino, who internally went to the mansion. Despite Naomi warning, is the cat with the death wish unable to of a death any longer No, then laments his fate. Wrapping eating right didn't help shit, name on the guest list. Firstly recognise the Joe Gambino says he is eating right, but it didn't help is shit but, more importantly, this continues. The motel of eating as symbolism for consumption. We recognized throughout BT the boys evolution from popped hearts to fast food, too vague in mere evolution as a person, and here he is You're frustrated. That is, recent changes, didn't make things better for him. He still going to die as he faces this day he sees no name on the guest list here, like his position as a party and in the end, in death, she's alone,
either he's not on the list anymore or he does have any one to put on the list to accompany him when he dies this line will also tie into the forthcoming scene in the script as the boy, up in the mansion will be renewed, of the parties hosted there, the boys not being on the guest list at his own party thus represents is Pending death Those time is up, he then says hold on. We were destined Here he switches again from I too. We see me to speak for humanity as a whole. His own name may not beyond the guest list, while his time maybe up the grand we is destined to go on a thread that will be picked up, later in the track as earth continues, Azalea thanks interests, attract a single rephrase,
Your name azalea. Banks begins repeating the songs intra like all the Jews in the world. A pity I is highly likely her appearance is symbolically tied to a real life identity here on earth, the oldest computer, twice So she was chosen because of her infamous association with the internet. While she was relative newcomer back in two thousand. Thirteen. Her prey it's on. The web has been a constant media. Lightning rod she galvanizes audiences and grappled with topics such as mental health, sexual orientation, race and more with almost a terrifying candor, simply put is the maelstrom of the web, personified around the time He appeared on BT, stereo gum published an article titled, the tender Miss Azalea Banks, Pisa, two thousand thirteen.
while Gambino and banks is relationship, was one founded in the web. It also extend in real life and I know I like what I do: a bunch of drugs. Azealia banks does drugs with me. Like we do drugs again, she's actually supposed to be doing like mushrooms, responsibly and when I come back when she's, making mushrooms movies means understanding, banks is contextual, presents unlikely character, ruler BT, we might, If the lyrics about her wanting to live forever, come from the web itself from all of scrambling to leave a permanent trace on the net to certify org since an eternity gamble, then punctuates each line of maybe it's the last night with romantic beautiful symbolism, he sings you and me fireworks all the stars and Superman reminder of the presence of celestial entities throughout BT, specifically the stars and moon that seem to represent masculine and feminine energies respectively. The peers, Gambino US
appearing to unite with the universe, as becomes a part of the all encompassing we after death. This universality is continued, as banks takes the lead, Spinks officers of more vulnerable to the grand we singing. All that I have all I dont have. The future. take on my soul. All night is a powerfully unguarded offering. In the light of understanding that tomorrow's not promised that death is going to happen, keep us from seeing the future. Banks offers all but I have and begs the universe to take on my soul
total surrender in the face of the terrifying unknown denies them. Whenever you never know the consequences reaches. The message about the lab name can be no place, of banks is plea to unite with the universe. Wrapping break free from the insides this indicates the release occurring of achieving freedom and death, insides here seem to be the limits of physical life and realising his oneness with the universe, realising all of our unity, Gambino Break free of restrains, as if becoming God those who would deny this are godless. Hence the following mine, the godless denied us can be. And recognises the limit of our finite mortality so far wrapping. But we don't a damn about the next day. We were never hear, never know. If the world change
the way we use our world and resources? It appears we don't care about tomorrow. and don't act sustainably and the grants the aim of the universe or individual lives, or so short, it's as if we weren't even here, and we can't really comprehend the long arc of history beyond our own era. If Arkansas with only ourselves and our present moment we lose sight of the future, and the changes that will occur. We think about me and not. We Four has explained this more directly in a recent interview with Mikhail Coal, saying quote, generation has a job they need to do. The job is always the same wishes to The tree you won't eat from period. If you can't do that job, it doesn't keep going, which is, I think, hard for us to really grasp, I think your quest to understand is this: you need to plant a tree right now and you don't get to eat from it maybe your kids don't even get to eat from it. You just tee them to water it, but their kids get tee from it and you d
or you go on you transition. Knowing you do The right thing unquote as the boy his death. He comes The realisation that he didn't always do the right thing. He didn't always plant the tree can't be northern wraps common sense, the consequences retreat. The truth, then regret the mention. We are aware of the results of our actions. There often common sense. we can see the science and data indicating our current systems are causing irreparable damage. We know Economic system and racial biased make it impossible for everyone to get a fair shake to experience. Real freedom quite often, Content we spread on the web is indicative of the horse with created. We retreat the truth, but engage and continued conversations or hold ourselves truly accountable campaign. It identifies the current situation, offering a diagnosis for problems. He wraps We are the wireless survivors of things gone here,
seems to identify the generation of people born before the internet became pervasive, having experienced with humanity. Before the web. It's an important, pivotal, transitory perspective, too clever. I think, like learning unique position that that we have a responsibility: Let's do this, but let's do right like we, we were member what humanity's with low Like we remember those feeling remembered ass, it ring that good shape with us good shit leave those abortion as glow explains. This puts a sense of responsibility on our generation. Who would also tell complex quote I don't know what I'm doing now, but everything is being recorded were the first ones to have to deal with this kind of stuff So we have to be aware of that and be aware of the repercussions on quoth. He then jobs, slaves to the unnamed. Never live long live in the line never no fear slave So the unnamed appears to mean those who work for something unidentified
essentially those who live life without an existential purpose are doomed. if humanity doesn't act with our unified survival and progress as our purpose, we're not going to be here long. Quite literally, will use up our planet to quickly. The seems too, and, as a result of living and dying by the line, never no fear that the dishonesty of not recognising and grappling with problems and insecurities instead living and ignorant bliss. It was this everything that Glover rejected and posting a series of notes detailing is most intimate. Fears on Instagram, as Glover would explained device quote fear is the only connecting factor, these. For me, every time I say something that I think someone else should know this, that's the thing that really gives the biggest response. Unquote fear is universal, something that connects us all It's also extremely motivating fear causes action, and if we want to spur action toward connection. We need to reckon
as the true terror of isolation of not grappling with our problems of law. Without regard for the ways that we kill each other, we can recognise each other's fears, empathize and identify common fears. We can act to make it safe for each other. It is certain, and each one of us listening to this, isn't going to make it, but if we can cure, but each other. Can realise that we need to make a place for those after us and plant the tree, can utilise our fear and connections for good progress. Only thing that, alas, three thousand of acting as a back seat, Gambino levels with us. Wrapping, even I won't survive, is an unfair casino. Care, when I step on it and on the grass Donald
further Emmy Grammy Golden Globe winning artist, the artists who made a world we ve spent hours exploring on the show offers an ultimate truth that he's and die the boys going to die. Irish Gambino, is going to die. Donald Glover is going to die that unfair, If someone can achieve as much as Glover has according to our systems, should they be but transcend mortality. Shouldn art provides web everlasting life, if only in memory. No, it doesn't only guarantee in life is death, for everyone, no matter what you do and we're all connected, throw shared mortality. but this also seems fair. We don't mortality of others as Glover points out when we step answered, the grass we don't recognize each life lost. Similarly earth does not care, when each of us dies it's a humbling thought, but the fear that this little truth evokes, could be used to motivate and connect us
Gambino than wraps progress, only thing that last more than Individual lives on earth is to unify forward, movement of humanity as a whole. That makes a dent in existence Gambino stated in an earlier interview. We have to plant a tree for them. future and contribute to humanity, survival and sustainability. We should think bigger about our purpose again, thinking less about me and more about the youth Firstly, we can be no continues three thousand five the year that we fear only God will survive, Of course, campaigner makes an internal reference to the song three thousand five, If you remember our analysis of the song music, video and accompanying seeker check, you know that three, and five as a concept comes to represent infinity in this instance, at the end of time, Glover states that only God will survive room were this, isn't a westernize religious concept of a singular removed God? This is the concept of we. while we are now becoming God, the continuous
progression of time means that if we want to survive, we will have to create to enact a spark of God laughter sustainably, build a world that we can inhabit and make it a space For all of Us Gambino then says to be alone is alive, but also To be alone is a lie in many ways: This dualistic line encapsulates the global message, because the internet explorer says the loneliness inherent to the human experience, but also the fat, that this loneliness is a lie that were all connected, recalled phone line from lovers, Instagram notes really lost last year. But I can't be lonely, though, because we're all here raw stuck here, unquote. independence is interdependent We rely on each other to exist. If we, the collective. We want to make it any further. If we want us this week connections to live forever than we have recognises connections and act with them in mind. The under
I'm feeling a Gambino song as a reaches. This point is that things will get better because we're here together as Gamble explain to Time magazine quote. I think the future is progress if we treat it right, but a lot of other people are afraid, because it's a lie scary. This is how it is have to be ok with it. Lets fix those things there's something wrong, but this is the way future is seen soon and after delivering the final version of the song Gambino in banks, single hook together offering intent repetition and evolving further and further, as the boy approaches death during life shows. These repetitions of the hook were swapped out with more improvised, intimate please from Gambino. The specific lyrics might ancient small ways from night tonight
covered the same thematic idea that he didn't want to die among Alternate lyrics are statements like I dont want to leave this place. Don't take this from me, I don't know where to go, and I just one understand this. In my heart, understand, gotta understand my soul, its desperation. Fear of death in the moment of death, a sincere singing to life, the pursuit of, understanding and the unifying fear. the unknown Gambino was to survive, and I see gloves and the boy see death approach their lives flash before their eyes. That's right! After the break, this episode What about the ethics original documentary here pop uncovered? The six points series reveals a fire.
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can't be no express that you didn't want to Jesse an error that he wanted to live forever, that he didn't want to die. regardless, the boy in the script is meeting his fate and musically here, Gambino Life Flash before his eyes. maybe I e all I gotta pee all lie the build up of the beat takes an annex active turn here and get me has distorted voice wraps. She got that body o me. Oh my send them pigs to my phone JP or why, at first, it seems like a big departure from deems addressed thus far in the track he fixed aids Physical Lust and desires connection through a phone leaning in the hedonism of the first half of the album p p a wise and acronym popular and sites like Tumblr standing for gratuitous sure of yourself
epitomizes, the indulgence of narcissism of the internet by posting, exorbitant amount of photos of yourself, given that this frank comes directly after a song full of beautiful but tragic insights, and please in the face of death, it's a bit puzzling but if you were an artist attempting to portray your life flashing before your eyes, how could you do it? Well One thing you can do is reference your password and assign a collage and receives be exactly what Glover is doing here here's the song- you see me from Gambino previous album camp, and everywhere on the hook. Has the same syllabic structure, the same use of a four letter acronym as punctuation and similar content Gambino, that makes a connection to tumblr and posting those JP a wise as Gambino he needs to repeat the acronym. The bee continues to be
with synthetic hand, claps encouraging crowd participation as we prepare for the dance drop war. Perhaps the moment of death. Why is that encourages us to clap along Gambino, repeats JP a why the face of death. There is the feeling of part like its ninety ninety nine, enjoying some momentary bliss before the impending doom and live. Those during this section, the mansion bridge, from behind Gambino and the ban crumbles apart and is sucked into vector. Ask vortex of code as all hell breaks loose incrementally this is the climb of the track we ve been working towards since the beginning,
Pino emerges. Crooning an unexpected loves here, begin an interpretation of another all Gambino son, this time it's so fly off the mix, tape, cul De Sac So fly as an incredibly intimate and emotional moment early on in campaigners catalogue. In contrast,
but the crass braggadocio of you see me this inside reference Harkin's back further to a more vulnerable nostalgic, love and relationship We think of the way the feminine energy has offered a source of symbolic comfort. Throughout b t. We he searching for comfort in this moment of existential terror to connect since he has lost and long for where B as mother, Alyssa or Naomi seem to be coming back to him. Understanding now there can be no is using past work to create a life flashing. Before his eyes experience. We have to note that the production of earth resembles to order song from Gambino Career first, the get it a dancer from lovers, mix tape, utterances of the heart public under the moniker empty deja vu. They give you wanna movie, you wanna, get this be altered and recycle, forget pianos track, the last
closing number on his two thousand ten weeks. State policy, really what I want to tell us why never faced right leg up, do not lie evils and I make brands in other ways- and I was somewhat always, but aside from the sonic similarities, even the song title. The last is a vote in earth. Parent medical title and refrain the last night and so take these three references to Gambino Back catalogue and totality. We see him fighting back on his life and connecting the dots at the moment of death back to his previous out of camp even for back to his mix tape, cul de sac and even further. still to his college days at the embassy Dj Betake fittingly earth continues with a climactic calamity. Perhaps too making the moment of death and the screenplay
in the script The boys led into the mentioned by the men with guns they make him give up, drugs in the house and sit on a couch he immediately starts thinking of ways to escape but realized that, even if someone called the police there isn't it station and in the Palisades so would be too late. The script in red, the feeling the boy had now a shockingly similar to the feeling he got at his own parties
people he didn't know or like casually walking around his home and him having to pretend everything is fine or that data while the power, when club the boy thinks of tax fan for help, but the guy's take his phone. The two main guys are named dude one and due to the screen, play them further bled the boy thought process. With the script quote it did feel like the day. The boy was going to die, not to say that Why didn't feel like he was going to die? He was certain he was going to die today, but here I feel like today felt like a the last day night, like a Wednesday that keeps feeling like a Friday, but them he thought about it if the last station, like the last day. The world would be a different place the order we have every day with vanish. If you are guaranteed a warning People went live like they do. They won't care but what you saw it be anarchy or a utopia depending on how you ask unclear the script and says if I was to director the one.
coded this world and allowed it to happen. They would play Thundercats track, will die. Do you recall that Thundercats appeal BT as producer based player and vocalist on shadows and pinkos the script and continues with bold italics, indicate the boys internal thoughts quote: try do your best. These the final lyrics on the song we'll die dude walks outside with the boys phone and do too stays but takes his wallet. The boy due to if the let him drown since heard they're supposed to be a wave of euphoria when he drowned do too it takes a seat next, with the boy and says we ve been watch you for a while boy realises these guys at the police. The boy asked I'm going to jail And then he starts imagining his body floating lifeless and the infinity poor. Next, the script
as an aunt Bettie clip Campesinos Jaffee at Kyoto, a video and song that refuse to announce is forthcoming, Alan because the internet, the script, continue by describing what the boy envisions quote eyes: wide bubbles lean to his face orange yellow. And brown leaves flowed above him. His I've shoe floating far ahead, probably struggling at some point. Next to the pool. Naomi and Steve stand over him. Neither crying or really seem to upset the just look on as if the movie they are watching, took an abrupt turn and their mildly interested. Rather than satisfied. It looks peaceful, fitting he'd like to go out like that, and then the boy thinks what's that the car screams to a halt pulling up outside the mentioned gunshots start firing. Do to a startled and dude one comes in firing. He shoots duty. It falls to the ground screaming and agony dude and turns to the boy the script cuts out bid sentence.
Then in parentheses, indicates three breaths being taken. Then silence. in this scene, the boy arrives at his mansion singing unaware of the day. but he faces enjoying the high life and became complacent, leaving him unguarded, making it easy for the cops or the crook step ahead. We recall earlier descriptions of the house that foreshadowed the vulnerability of the mansion security, noting that quote, if one made their way up there. It would be easy to get in his glass house is innately exposed and much like our concern. did identities, it can come crashing down at any moment, interests lay while hostage in his own home. The boy feels like did at his party's before he realized the capacity for connection. If alienated isolated and powerless. In the face of what's going on around him and a scene directly after he in Miami disconnect over, not feeling fine to again has to pretend things are fine, even as he knows he's going to die. This reinforces
lovers desire for us to all recognise and act with the knowledge of mortality, with the knowledge that Things are not ok, he also implies when he talks about how different we'd act, if we all could feel or comprehend or impending death? No, when he says that, if we could, we wouldn't care what other people thought and the four Some of that revelation alone would cause anarchy or utopia, depending on you asked in this way Where is proposing that currently most of our mutations restrictions are caused by caring about what others think of us. When the duke this phone and his wallet they take his method of connecting with the world his mouth, he and his identity. At this point, death feels inevitable. as he's lost all of his power and sense of self the boy If, though, let him drowned in the infinity pool as an act of mercy calling attention to the possible symbolism of this type of death, but the dude stop and tells him he's going to jail because their cops. The present the police has hovered throughout BT from the shooting of world. Star and telegraph avenue to the site.
Since that ended pinkos as different. people did their best to gain power or freedom. There are always the deadly threat of state sanctioned police violence in our analysis of these scenes. We recognise that This brutality is an existential threat to the minority populations. These Queries in our system compel attempts at fixing that very system. Yet our society polices as a method of control of me training. The system we built the status quo, their job is to protect but all, but as we have seen, the way that we build capital prohibits everyone from eating the crap drove the system is further reflected in the hypocrisy of these cops. As the Coming shoot out reveals that some of them are also likely competing. Drug dealers before the shoot out. The boy gets a reprieve, a vision and the FAO The video and snippet Yankee at it's here that we see his body flowing lifelessly in the infinity poor, his arms out fresh wide, staring directly The camera darling backwards, the selective clip of Jaaffier Code
is the first half of the song, a barrage of self deprecating bars, wherein he calls himself the worst wrapper and panic. The fleet, nature of it all was rapporteur on the main one rabbit I ever so many like. I have a blow up overnight, Wilma well bred lacking, gave the boy he's tearing himself partner track fitting for the moment of death of deconstruct loss of self Ballistic, moment to acknowledge what Glover just did here. Yeah here Toto was a song that formally announced the Alps release in the first tangible piece of the because the internet world, at the time, its vision, were extremely cryptic yet now in this, green place final scene. We ve come full circle in yet another loop cycle of beauty. I we knew that and from the beginning and of course, like the story of everyone ever the end, is death
and then there is the infinity poor symbolism to consider recall that the infant poor as the central image of the boys mansion tied into his father's opulence, but also to the images of cycles related to Buddhism on the party we described his house as having an infinity poor and a statue. That's Buddhist on for the wrong reasons, the pool appears frequently at all times, the boys repeating day the circular misery throughout BT, such as the spiral staircase circular windows, the island in the middle of the poor and the infinity. we'll terminology itself. Keep us in on its connection to loops infinity and the concept of reincarnation recall in the previous seen Naomi toxic the idea of death as a moment of transition into the next day or life. An idea reincarnation, and the boy agrees with her- white light and shouted the boy in the pool, as was the boys white T shirt caused him and purity in this vision of death as rebirth as the boy succumbs to the water and then there
actual water inside the poor to consider water has been a thematic present throughout each year typically appearing in art as a symbol of life, renewal or purity. Glover would do. Rob his concept of water and multiple interviews telling tat. magazine quote. I look at us. like all the water droplets, every of water on earth is looking for all the other droplets raw trying to get to the sea. All trying to be the same water. I feel like that's people to understand each other, where the language or sex are all those things. That's what separates us, from everybody else, were the only I can look at something and see how it hurt somebody to be called a name or something and feel that empathy. That's what separates us really, I feel like. Sometimes we lose that because the internet makes it hard to do that. We have to build that in unquote. To gloves water presents a metaphor for us all for a dynamic, natural poor for connection as water moves to join other water as water.
as a source of life and seeks to connect. It comes to stand in for human nature waters. Loan throughout b t I, from the ocean where the boy serves and later pauses fathers ashes to the reawaken. purpose it serve in the shower to spit of his mouth ass. He tries to wrap, sing, speak, communicate and connect with us. Is this spit this act of communication that comes up again with the infinity pool here, as the Althea koto begins, with Gambino wrapping worst rapid ever spent On an open MIKE as an imagined euphoric final resting place. Gambino The boy seemed to want to stay in this state feeling the inaction and humanity represented by the water as Glover was prepared tied with the need for humanity to move forward sustainably in the time of the internet and his words to bring the Good shit with us forward its The water and its represent. one of our life strive to connect is the life force, need to survive in the future,
don't bring water are natural, pull for connection with us into the digital future. We won't survive boy floats on the water, Naomi and Steve. Look on if only mildly, satisfied between them do they represent the boys romantic relationships and is hedonistic friends, both the so fly JP or why sections of the ultra, the shotgun boy floating in the pool also contains a few clear allusions to classic film and literature. As this, on his underneath the water, a member, the infamous opening scene of the nineteen, fifty film sunset Boulevard, wish he's the narrator, Joe Gillis floating Dead and a Hollywood pool the shock, made the dangers of Hollywood, excess and twisted love. The narrator of the film, a writer attempted to move. often order actress who acquired wealth from a long gone stardom in some that boulevard shot the rule Steve, and I owe me as onlookers, are instead policemen like F yet quota being the first peace at the beach I world
poor scene and Sunset Boulevard was the first shot of the film and the rest the film was conveyed through a flashback leading to the narrators death. A narrative loops you're. Much like we ve, discovered and b t. I the poor shot, is also a clear allusion to the end of F, Scott Fitzgerald, nineteen, twenty five novel, the great Gatsby in climactic, conclusive scene, Gatsby is murdered, while swimming alone in the pool of his grandiose Hamptons mansion, most notably the Many thirteen film adaption includes a similar shot of Gatsby lifeless face from below the water, as he floats in the pool gets peace. Suits in a novel became consumed with money, both in Essex airing wealth and hearing is his voice sounded money pool is an artificial body of water and it each year, Sunset Boulevard, an Gatsby. The pool is connected to it I urge mansion and thus the death of Gatsby. The boy and Joe Gillis hold similar symbolic significance of become consumed by the structure society built around life instead of it
lily, pure source of water, something about that. instruct the chemical additions and the wealth represented by a personal pool, taints the purity water symbolism? Now we serve to recognise the boys posed in the water like the album cover. He is staring directly at the camera centering as identity, as are or out stretch wide feet together below him in what appeal to be a clear allusion to Jesus on the cross, he's even got. two onlookers behind him into the sight of him, recalled it ever tied. The death of the boys, father to the death of God, insult of Stockholm, in this case the what would be the Christ figure, the Son of God, Glover was too and to release because the internet, around Christmas time, applying public pressure to his label with the support of his fans and using one of his seven instagram knows to address the situation quote The label doesn't want me to release in December because it's not a holiday record and I'm not a big artist started the record last Christmas. Christmas always may you feel lonely, but to help me
restart the new year. I want able to have this album when everything is closed when everything's those down and quiet. So start over unquote beyond the simple type Christ birthday Glover focuses on the idea of a restart a rebirth. are the loneliness who feel that the end of the year being a chance to start over this is of direct peril for the ideas of reincarnation throughout BT and his position as the Buddha like figured as we ve covered on a previous episode. In this way Glover combines eastern and western notions to find the universal figure of the boy, quite litter, the bridging gaps and bringing varied religious symbolically together and to this threat reincarnation, loops and cycles will recall. the boys desire to drown because he heard it brings euphoria death sensation of floating and release from consciousness is a mere image of birth. Of times bent in the womb Gabby
when the boy experienced the sensation earlier on flight of the navigator when they had a dream, they were floating in envision. Utopia, universal connection, while in between life and death, do euphoria Is it a time and presence that transcends life instead, listing among the fluid the water. The universe completely immersed and removed from the pain of physical life. The appeals but he can go out the way began. Truly, this death seem contains infinity indicative of the sin. Of universal connection in life and death felt by Glover. But of course, boy doesn't received. This idealized euphoric death as rebirth and the sound of a car screeching outside breaks the vision and dude one whom he thought was a comes in shooting killing me their guy in shooting the boy. The irony is that he was envisioning death, but then death in crashing into his life. It's real, sensation of the ever present unknowable threat of death, that instills fear and our souls. Given the brow, of gunshots as the scripts
cuts out. We experienced the three breath written into the end of the scene as the boys final breath. This appears to be elected and in the song as well A few solo snare drumhead at the end representing the shots and the pause after its being the silence of the boy leaving her conclusions in my performances, Webster Earth, the oldest computer, was the final song performed before an extended, encore that span campaigners earlier musical catalogue fittingly start with the performance of so fly. The very song interpolated north nostalgia, The boys mansion falls into the avoided the went behind Gambino one stage, the visual,
Iser, the boys mother reappear, offering the final monologue at the shell. you understand a kid people afraid the world tell your words. The boys mother says, quote your father. Wanted you to go to camp for the summer's. I wanted you home. He thought it would be good for you I need you to understand that kid's people theirs afraid don't let the war I'll tell you your worth, truth is the heart of God. you are becoming God we are becoming God here at the end of the show, the boys summer camp trip from his previous album camp is formerly acknowledge
just as it was at the start of the script with a boy got off the bus them. reveals. A going to camp was his father's idea, even though she wanted him home a decoy. me, highlighting the symbolism of both parents. We discuss throughout BT. I recall how the boy was marked and humiliated for expressing his feelings for a girl at camp and here his mother seems to comfort him explaining that Actions are basted, fear that he should rely on the world to tell him what he's worth she and tells him way is what we are. Truth is the heart of God. You are becoming God we are becoming God. this seems to tie into the final lines of earth progress. Only thing that last three thousand five the year that we face you're, only God will survive to be alone, is alive, like our indifference about, and that die under our feet. The earth does not care about her. individual lives, are lost.
there too short for one individual to make a significant debt and the grand scheme of the universe. Earth, like evolution, is only concerned with progress as a means of survival. The loneliness insignificance in fear of death. This grim reality inspires in us loom. of the entire human experience and The boys mother points out drive so much of our actions on earth and inspires many to pursue the survival of me over the survival of the collective. We, as simplified in the first half of BT, I fear of the unknown can drive people to selfishly indulge pursue capital access unconcerned with the survival of others, humanity and the planet, Most extreme versions of this approach always end ended, bloodshed, privatisation of the individual or small group over another finds us for of a resources, ideologies and power. On the other hand, if required, nice and understand our universal fears and the way that they connect us we can use,
them to inspire action that prioritizes the collective over the individual we can buy to collective progress, as humanity's only great legacy. We can plant the tree for the future and keep each other safe in the face of the existential dilemma. We can inject truth, honesty and compassion into our systems and new technologies. So we can progress, so he can move away from killing each other and move closer and closer. Becoming God the reversal, we earths computer code individual droplets of water modernizing into a single body. If these DE as that Gambino and the boy are beginning to figure out as they stared into the face of death here on earth, the oldest computer. The irony is just he's on the brink of achieving a grander understanding. The answers he's been searching for rocky tie, the boy dies and this brings us to the title of the song earth, the oldest computer at sea, this joint, a number of literary references and BT. This time,
the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, a series of creation by Douglas Adams, and these works The supernatural computer designed to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything that is This programme to solve the existential dilemma after millions of years of calculation, the computer, whose name is deep, thought famous. He says the meaning of life, the universe and everything is the number forty two dismayed at its inability to even completely understand the question. Deep thought creates earth a superior computer and designed to discover the true question after a ten million years, experience of life, this computer, it is early, is destroyed. Five minutes before can finish its work, this Duration appears to reflect the boys journey on BT. He tries to find it. Answer to his existential crisis, falls into a cycle of trying, again and again and here on earth the oldest computer
meet his doom, just as he was starting to feel a potential sustainable connection with Naomi, just as he was beginning to under and his broader connection to others to life to earth to the universe is like some cruel, Joe some sarcastic punchline, it's as life itself told him where only the night air made thought, I said at the thought: TAT every guy seeds from a problem. The problem is the problem. Of course. This is life. The biggest troll Andrew aren't homer the sun examined no by no line by line next time, when dissect
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