Ockham's Razor

from Scale and Probability by Monsterworks

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‘Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.’

The Universe is estimated to be 13.7 billion years old. It takes several generations of the right kind of stars, with a particular
lifecycle, to form heavier elements that might congregate into a planetary system at the right distance from a newly
formed star to have liquid water and the right conditions for life to evolve. It might take close to 13.7 billion years, in fact.

When you cut away the speculation of all our ingenious potential solutions, the simplest answer to the question ‘why are
we alone?’ is that what we are a part of, on planet Earth alone, is the first example of a technologically advanced civilisation.
Ever.

Life is rare, intelligence is rarer and there is only one place in the Universe where it all came together. This conclusion highlights
the scale of responsibility each and every one of us has to continue existing and progressing in the hope of making it to a
next level, whatever that means. The best chance of ascension is through cooperation which takes a certain degree of letting
go and considering what achieves the greater good.

Ultimately we will leave this world behind one way or another, but in the meantime it is the only home we have.

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It wasn’t a vision of absolutes
Breathing the vapour of many eternities
Beyond the bright blue halo

When you reject the premise of mediocrity
What is left-over is a rare Earth scenario
Many theories are plausible
but a simple test can cut to the best...Ockham’s Razor!

I can see the stars are shining deep inside of you
Enlightening the full circle narrative
Aspiration and faith stripped away, laid bare the truth
There...is no one else!

That is why this predicament is so precarious
A squandered chance, unforgivable
Sometimes it seems a cataclysm is the best way to
start again, progress to this point has lead a
merry dance, driving headlong to a fiery end

The silent majority are complicit in the crime
Never attribute malice, what can be adequately
defined by stupidity

They never contemplated, the privilege of existence

Cast back to the sea
Where, once again, there would be silence over the deep

Though flawed as we are
This is still the single greatest product of nature
If the universe became dull to music and art,
the last tear would be shed

As I sat upon my hill above a valley of emptiness
the last thinking being lamenting... we were the first!

The final time in the garden
The Empire crumbled years ago to a cult of one
This concept is put to rest, as a life, an idea dies a death

credits

from Scale and Probability, released May 4, 2018
Hugo :: Bass
Jon :: Guitars and Vocals
James :: Drums
Marcus :: Lead Guitar

Music :: Blade
Words :: Jonathan Grenville Higgs

Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire, Wales
Recording Engineer :: Joe Jones
Mixed at The Chaos Lounge by Blade
Mastering :: Dan Swanö at Unisound, Sweden

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