My latest music video features the melody and lyrics of “Progress Unyielding” - the anthem celebrating space colonization and humans’ expansion throughout the universe, guided by the principles of individualism, liberty, rationality, and progress. It is originally found in my 2004 novel, “Eden against the Colossus”. I was asked in 2013 to create a composition to convey the music of this anthem, as I imagined it when writing the novel. The meter of this piece would accommodate the following very slightly modified lyrics, which still communicate the same substance as the anthem in the novel. **** Progress Unyielding Our souls before these sights dwarfed shan’t become. Why bow to passive matter of antiquity? What spreads from it is pandemonium; Its barrenness is source for all iniquity. ‘Tis in our minds the idols hatch, Of stone for man to shape and mold. Such logic does our hands attach To this domain of lifeless cold, To every cavern, crater, creek. Wrong was the man who’d preached the norm That worlds are destined for the meek! Our will and strength give matter form. He who grovels tastes his obsequies; We float into the void, oases craft. We are not slaving tribal bees, And no collective guides our raft. We are not one, but many knights; Each does himself his quest ordain, We thrive on work, and work from rights. Our well-earned profit’s our domain. This ground bears meaning solely to our aims. Its monuments stem from our ingenuity. Glory to him who savage wildlands tames, And weeds out every incongruity! What shall replace the brittle dune? What shall refine this cratered scar? Our pavement shall embrace them soon, And spread to every spawn of star Yet seen, and into others we shall gaze, And thus apply the universe’s stock. This is not but one transient phase. Forever shall we tame new rock! Cosmos is Man’s, its means and goal. Its exiled heirs now seek its wreath: Supremacy, from atom, oil, and coal. Our claim to treasures underneath These jagged lands shall never wane. Always grand mechanisms will be our guide. No Luddites shall their betterment profane. Inventors we exalt and vandals we deride! Merit determines worth under our creed. The self-made prodigy our government defends, Does our endeavor by example lead, And never harms one for another’s ends. What is the trait we deem sublime? The source which does all virtue render. It, dauntless, conquers space and time, And never can its plight surrender. It is inside us, best within the great, The ego, mind, one’s self, one’s soul, Prerequisite to any proper state. Maintain your own, and you’ve fulfilled your role. No world beyond this life is real; Its furthering’s our sole concern. No godly favor is to steal, No mystic afterlife to earn. God’s not above us, but within; The Self’s the Lord, Reason, His rite. We have a universe to win. Join us, great men, in splendid flight! **** https://youtube/watch?v=sF5WmABHG5g
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 05:38:54 +0000
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