Mindful Solutionism

2.5 million years ago, a friend of mine Made a tool from a stone and defended his tribe It's technology, sorry for the technical term It's a wheel then a fire and the rest is a blur Throw a theorized plot in the pot with applied science Let it sit, I bet it streamlines your environs, yeah What's a resource local to the grotto? The method isn't free until the mechanism follow That's technology, innovate a difference A feat of engineering, a system made efficient There isn't a condition, complication, or a vision Where the answer ain't to build a more sophisticated widget, idgit Tired of games, Bronze Age, Iron Age Weaponry in stellar form, shelter finer by the day Livestock and vegetables in rows behind the hideaway Mesopotamia out the motherfuckin' lion cage, yuh If it's out of the bag then it's out of the bag If it's out of the bag then it's out of the bag If it's out of the bag then it's out of the bag Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat You take a lever and a pulley and a winch and a wedge You get a labyrinth of aqueducts and pyramid steps Before the Jesus, Archimedes on that miracle tech Year Zero, you could feel the future rearing its head Put a shoe on a horse, shoot a man with a gun Steam power, bifocals, and mechanical funk Manipulate electricity, no, it cannot be done Yes it can, ain't a dam that can cancel the flood True to human curiosity, at the Tree of Knowledge Pulling genies out of bottles, stealing from Leonardos Plain train auto hauling space age cargo Bizzaro technology, every day is tomorrow Telegraph, telephone, you can flirt with Doris In Poughkeepsie from a cozy geodesic dome in Sydney You can write a letter with no paper You can fix anything with a laser If it's out of the bag then it's out of the bag If it's out of the bag then it's out of the bag If it's out of the bag then it's out of the bag Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat You could get a robot limb for your blown-off limb Later on the same technology could automate your gig, as awesome as it is Wait, it gets awful: you could split a atom willy-nilly If it's energy that can be used for killing, then it will be It's not about a better knife, it's chemistry and genocide And medicine for tempering the heck in a projector light Landmines, Agent Orange, leaded gas, cigarettes Cameras in your favorite corners, plastic in the wilderness We can not be trusted with the stuff that we come up with The machinery could eat us, we just really love our buttons, um Technology, focus on the other shit 3D-printed body parts, dehydrated onion dip You can buy a Jet Ski from a cell phone on a jumbo jet T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y, it's the ultimate Altitude, climate, geography, medical research, automated teaching, distribution, better health, unknown factors If it's out of the bag then it's out of the bag If it's out of the bag then it's out of the bag If it's out of the bag then it's out of the bag Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat Now that is a powerful cat