Design for Your Right to Survive · The Operants

Описание: "Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)
"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)

Signal and consequence — the rule that binds us,
From stars to skin, the same law finds us.
A few saw clearly, they warned the age,
But the short-term wins wrote the final page.
Payoffs now made the future blur,
They sold the cure for what they’d incur.
We chased applause, ignored the cause,
And physics don’t rewrite its laws.

"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)
"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)

Business boomed, belief resumed,
The data drowned in the boardroom fumes.
They said “be moral,” but markets ruled —
The system smiled while the climate cooled.
Leaders preached, but feedback taught
That power pays when the rest do not.
The culture fell for its own disguise,
And the species burned while the cities rise.

"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)
"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)

"Design for your right"
"Survive, survive"
"Design for your right"
"Survive, survive"

"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)
"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)

But the other path — it lit the dawn,
When behavior was mapped and the myths withdrawn.
They studied cause, not praise or sin,
And aligned the world from the circuits in.
They built their domes where the data spoke,
Where laws replaced the moral cloak.
They tuned the culture, adjusted, revised —
And thousands of years kept hope alive.

"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)
"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)
Get involved, get into it
Get into, get involved

"Design for your right"
"Survive, survive"
"Design for your right"
"Survive, survive"
Don’t give up the design

"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)
"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)
Get involved, get into it
Get into, get involved

"Design for your right"
"Survive, survive"
"Design for your right"
"Survive, survive"
Don’t give up the design

"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)
"Yeah, yeah" (Yeah, y’all!)
Design for your right to survive! (Yeah, y’all!)

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It Takes a Culture of Consequences to Change the World:    • It Takes a Culture of Consequences to Chan...  

Alright. Listen. This record is me putting the whole species on trial—no metaphors, no mysticism, just the operator’s manual we keep pretending doesn’t exist. I’m walking you straight through the machinery underneath what we like to call ‘choice.’

It all comes down to one law that runs from single cells to collapsing civilizations: Selection by Consequence. Not hope. Not intention. Whatever gets reinforced, stays. And right now, we’re living inside a stack of bad loops—tantrum loops, outrage loops, profit loops—short-term payoffs that are eating our future alive.

This album isn’t preaching. It’s reporting. It’s the cold clarity you get when you stop asking what people meant to do and start looking at what the system pays them to do. The planet doesn’t need saving. It’ll outlast us. We’re the ones in trouble, because we built a world where the rewards push us toward our own decline.

I’m tracking how we turned into reactive agents—jumping at the closest reinforcer, mistaking noise for truth, blaming ghosts for the consequences we designed ourselves. And I’m showing you the pivot: stop begging for better behavior and redesign the environment so better behavior actually wins.

Because this isn’t about willpower. It’s about architecture. You want a different outcome? Change the contingencies. Make cooperation pay more than destruction. Make truth beat spectacle. Make the long term hit as hard as the short term. That’s the rebellion that works.

This record is the wake-up call. A blueprint carved into sound. We survive by design, or we don’t survive at all. The consequences aren’t negotiable—only the systems that create them are.

Now let’s get busy.

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Credits:
Text: ChatGPT / DeepSeek
Graphics: ChatGPT
Audio: Udio
Video Source: Man With a Movie Camera (1929)

This project was made possible through tools shaped by generations of artists. Their influence moves through every word, sound, and image. We honor the creative lineage behind it all.