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...Firmly rooted in their eponymous theories of musical "de-evolution," Devo burst onto the musical scene in the late '70s with the memorable "Jocko Homo" and "Mongoloid," and continued producing songs like the oft-covered "Girl U Want" and, yes, "Whip It." The band carved its own niche through minimal instrumentation, precise rhythms and sing-songy atonality; it became known for its cover versions, which "de-evolved" classics like the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" into their bare structural elements. Remembered by most for their early contributions to music video in red flowerpot hats...
...oppressive. One could almost sit languidly under a tree, sipping lemonade and watching throngs of beautiful bronzed bodies darting about in carefree games of Frisbee or volleyball. Almost--because the minute you actually started enjoying this come-from-behind sunshine, your conscience should have rebelled. What are we arrogant homo sapiens doing, reaping the sweet fruits of our heinous interference with weather systems and our unconscionable rape of the global climate...
...take it for granted that human beings are the pinnacle of the living world, that Homo sapiens is nature's most advanced and magnificently burnished product. And since numerous lines of evidence testify that our species is the result of a long evolutionary history, we tend to assume that in the future there will be more perfecting change along essentially the same lines...
...upshot is that after a period of diversification, Homo sapiens is in a mode of reintegration, as witness the fact that the boundaries between the former geographical variants of our species are becoming increasingly blurred. If present trends continue, those boundaries will become blurrier still. Amid all this, the conditions for incorporating meaningful new innovations into human populations have all but disappeared--and with them the prospects for significant evolutionary change...
...good news is that we're not going to be evicted. The universe is likely to remain hospitable to life for at least an additional 100 billion years. That's 20 times as long as the earth has existed, and 5 million times as long as Homo sapiens has lasted so far. If we're not around to shoot off fireworks on New Year's Eve of the year 100,000,000,000, it won't be the universe's fault...