Audiovisuals...Wolf Parade's "Modern World" official video

      Everywhere we go, we are reminded what the human race is capable of doing.  Beginning with just a kite and a key, we have progressed from the inconceivable finding of electricity to those super compact, mega capable miniature computers we so modestly call cell phones.  And who would have guessed that less than 60 years after man first took flight in 1903 that we would be commanding missions into the frontiers of space.  It’s inconceivable. 

      But while innovation and modernity can seem to only possess an infinite number of blessings, I have a bunch here that think otherwise- they’re called Wolf Parade.  The song “Modern World” is off their debut “Apologies to the Queen Mary” album.  In it, the ultimate response they have towards the objects we so compulsively obsess over in our modern world are not of admiration and honor, but of disdain and scorn.  A question they want an answer to is simply ‘why?’  What is the need and when will we stop?  Their video seems to see the end of humanity as inevitable.  The end though is not a robo-pocalypse that sends all humans to their demise but more of a spiritual existence and characters that will see its end in all of us. 

      Being stop motion and animated, the video’s overall message and abilities are no way hindered.  There is a genuine sympathy these men deserve as they look across the way into the harrowing monotony of the factory, a cornerstone image of our modern world.  Technology- with it we are doomed, but then again, we wouldn’t have this video without it.

+Below was the top Youtube user comment from the video that I felt nicely sums up the feel of "Modern World":

"Machines will replace the human spirit.  Its a sad truth of our lifestyle.  People see money, and then they mas produce.  Then even more factories pop up.  Hey, I'm sorry, but you don't have a job anymore.  This robot here can do it ten times better.  You're left in the street because of greed.  There will ALWAYS be human spirit, but it will continue to be smothered to the point where it doesn't show."  -L07EK 1 year ago 23