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Waiting for the vaccine, like a mouse in a trap
All my COVID-19 lockdowns, bounce to the track
If you want to get back to business, it’s time ask
Yourself what you believe that’s counter to fact
They told you to go with your gut, but now you just can’t
Instead you gotta listen to Tony Fauci and mask
To keep the virus in check, Lauren Hill said it best
Everybody wear the mask, but how long will it last?
From now until herd immunity
Until vaccinations saturate your community
‘Cause every one of us is embedded in networks
And some of them reject experts who test first
And know the scientific method works incrementally
Evaluating every hypothesis skeptically
Experimentally building models and factoring
Causes and effects counterfactually
Like: what if everybody had masked and distanced
Ever since this started, would that have made a difference?
With fewer margarita parties at the height of COVID season
Would we have a few more New Zealands?
So what do you believe? And is it up for debate?
And can you imagine evidence confronting your faith
That makes your level of confidence in it fluctuate?
Inoculate yourself against suspect claims!
If you believe it
And you really feel it
It’s still not impossible
It’s counter-factual
If you can show it
How you really know it
We got a way to find
The counterfactual
You better wait…
If you make claims that are evidence-based
It’s best to check ‘em in evidence-based ways
You better wait…
It’s tough to reason someone out of believin’
Something they were never reasoned into in the first place
You better wait…
Counterfactual studies are just a practical
Part of scientifically modeling where a path will go
And if enough people hold counter-factual
Beliefs, they form an angry mob and storm a capital
Yeah, true beliefs are a form of capital
Societies rich in them tend towards rational
Evidence-based medicine instead of magical
Witchcraft when a pandemic explodes
So, what’s the counterfactual for true beliefs
About the greenhouse gasses that you release
When driving and keeping the lights on and producing heat?
Ignorance is gonna put us over two degrees
With melting ice, droughts, rising seas
Forest fires, and climate refugees
Motivated by the same basic needs that made
Ted Cruz leave for Cancun in a Texas freeze
Yeah, false beliefs are a form of poverty
And like true beliefs, they spread virally
“COVID-19 is connected to 5G
And you can kill it, try bleach in your IV
I learned it from IG – it’s my personal belief
That I should do whatever personally works for me”
But that’s the thing, no person is an island
And science denial is workin’ to spread the virus
Pushing temperatures higher, and that’s costly
When everybody shares the same air commonly
Reduce the garbage heap with a carbon fee
‘Cause false beliefs are not free
If you believe it
And you really feel it
It’s still not impossible
It’s counter-factual
If you can show it
How you really know it
We got a way to find
The counterfactual
You better wait…
Please, keep your faith-based beliefs
To yourself on matters of public safety
You better wait…
Think about your neighbor’s needs
If you’re not sure, hey, wait and see
You better wait…
Do I have false beliefs too? I do
That’s just my biased social primate view
My truth is that my truth is quite skewed
And yours is too, that’s why science is cool
‘Cause it ritualistically fact-finds
Our brains tend to match the frames of allies
And separate the good guys from the bad guys
But the scientific method is designed
To transcend tribes – it’s just a set of norms
You can use it to evolve tools into better forms
Or craft laws and policies informed
By the best of our knowledge about what’s in store
Are we in for a world increasingly divided
By political tribalism, echo chambers and silos?
Or, are we really in it together
Like a Mars lander, a human scientific endeavor?
Whether climate change, or beating a new disease
Science is the finder of maximally true beliefs
Casting light ahead so we can choose judiciously
So what do you believe?
If you believe it
And you really feel it
It’s still not impossible
It’s counter-factual
If you can show it
How you really know it
We got a way to find
The counterfactual
You better wait…
Gotta wait ‘til your spot gets locked
And then don’t hesitate to get the shot
You better wait…
It takes patience
To trigger the better angels of human nature
You better wait…
So have patience, ‘cause after that
The promised land awaits us
You better wait…
credits
from Bright Future,
released May 28, 2021
Written by D. Brinkman, A. Ross, R. Sticklor
Produced by DJ Plain View
Additional Production and Mix by Lin Gardiner
Clav and Additional Organ by Clef Seeley
supported by 4 fans who also own “Counterfactual (feat. Aaron Ross)”
It's freaking phenomenal, that's why. I listen to Omniverse every single day several times but that's no0t to say there aren't some fantastic rivals to that song such as Broken Symmetry, Defiant, Spectacle,5th, .8, Frame of Reference, Beachfront & Interdimensional Council of Greys icarusignite
supported by 4 fans who also own “Counterfactual (feat. Aaron Ross)”
I could listen to "Narc Hi Score" anytime, but "Warp Formula" is pure POWAH! You cannot stand still. Buy this album. It's a great variety of WB styles and themes; there's something here for everybody. cyko9