Spotify: The 1975 Presents Notes on a Conditional Form

Crystallized environments
Subculture, distinct subcultures have
Disintegrated to the
Point where it's a more
Individual that each person is their own
Individual subculture it wants to ask like
It's a part of this desire for
The defini the search for
The definitive self, you know like
We're all on this, this kind of journey or
This, what it all what life
Feels like is the search
For the definitive self, and
When you have like
Instagrams and have these kinds
Of things, that become
Like compartmentalized
Like crystallized environments for you to
Create i don't know, micro-versions of
Yourself, or subversions of yourself
Or curated versions of yourself it's
Like this idea for the search
Of the definitive self
It's kind of ever-present and
We're so conflicted, cause
We're like, 'Well if I'm like this, why am
I these contradictions, and if
I believe this
Then why am I that?' So I think
That the fact that the search for
The self is so Sisphyean and so
Kind of like yes Sisphyian, pointless
Like never-ending, you know i think the
Comfort that comes from that, materializes
In this self-worship and this kind
Of separation of individual, let you sear
You know, making subcultures and individual
Thing, like there's no more
It it's I feel like it's all tied in
And to it's kind of sense of purpose

PROXIMITY there's this
The nice the utopian idea would
Be that it reaches
Towards the original utopian idea of
The Internet, which was, yes
About freedom of information but
It was also about extending
Pre-existing relationships so
Extending the relationships you already have
So being able to talk to your
Grand dad who lives in China
Or being able to speak to your
Friend at work
When he's in Bangkok or wherever it may
Be and it was about kind of
The extension of pre-existing
Communication and I
Think that the Internet has a
Tool for that, as the
Internet, more recently
Has been used as a tool to kind
Of fuel anger, to kind of divide the
World, to kind of like, yes
To have meetings and stuff like
That but we've gotten
To a place where people have really been
Using it as a tool to extend this idea
Of proximity and I think that it's gonna
Expand in very, very real, therefore
Very, very surreal ways
You know what I mean like?
I think that it's also like, brings up
The question of like, you know, reality
In regards to like how like, for example
If you look at social media and I
Started talking about this on like the second
Record, we're getting well you know
We're on the fourth now but there was a line
Where I talk about like your eyes were
Full of diseases you said
I'm full of diseases
Your eyes were full of regret
And then you took
A picture of your salad and put it on
The Internet and I think that that record
That song is
Talking about how it's obviously an argument
In real-time, in real life
But there's a part in one of the
Sides of the argument, a part of one of the
People that wants to check on the Internet
Wants to check on the Internet world

An avatar for reality
My perspective in that is
Well that's not real
And this is real, so you're conflicted
Like why are you putting value on that?
That's obviously my perspective
But now, I question that i'm like, 'Well
What is real? Where is self-worth?
Where are these things coming from?'
Like if we created this
Kind of like the Internet it'self
Is like an avatar
For reality it has it's own
Like, economy, and like, through
Attention, and it's like we all live in it
It's like a
Little city, like we it's in it'self, it's
Own kind of avatar so i
I don't know what the digital self is
Going to mean because I think
That it's a bit like
By the time it arises, it will be normal, i
Feel like you look at like Westworld
And people are saying, 'Ah
Wouldn't it be crazy?' Because people
Would just go around
Raping robots, and beating them up
And shooting them it's like
Yeah, psychopaths will always be
Psychopaths, but for example
People like grow up with
Machines! Like people
Grow up in order to make
Like real life robots
We're going to have to like
Grow up with them if you're like 13
And you've grown up
With robots and stuff like that
And somebody like goes to
Hurt it, why are you going to say yeah
Maybe not like you apply ah, you know
Like feelings come from intent
Like we were talking about before
So like a Roomba, people
Will feel sorry for their Roomba
Because it'll like get stuck
In the corner, and it's a frisbee on wheels
But because it looks like it's
Got an intention because it looks
Like it's trying to
Go somewhere, people will be
Like, 'Oh Roomba, you're caught
In the corner
Cute little Roomba' And it's because it
Has this just, if you
Apply intent to anything
We'll empathize with it so like what
I'm saying, is like all of
These ideas like, 'Oh, it's
Going to be so strange, when
Avatars' No no no, it's going
To be a slow build
We'll build an emotional
Relationship with it
By the time we look back
We'll be like, 'Aha
Look how weird it was when
We didn't have virtual
Auntie Pam' D'you know what I mean? I
Think it's just going to be like this thing
That is going to be massively embraced slowly