Rocko is the eponymous fictional character of the cartoon Rocko's Modern Life and the comic book series of the same name. Rocko was born in Australia and emigrated to America in High School. He was pitched to Nickelodeon executives as having the personality of a young wallaby Woody Allen. Carlos Alazraqui provided the voice of Rocko in the television series.
Rocko first appeared in a never-released comic, where he has the name "Travis".Joe Murray, creator of Rocko's Modern Life, believed that the personality of a wallaby suited Rocko after observing a zoo wallaby "minding his own business" while elephants and monkeys "screamed for attention." After the event, Murray said that "[i]t kind of clicked. Rocko would be at the center of the hurricane of everything swirling around him. He'd be like the everyman who's affected by the dramatic personalities around him."
Murray wanted to get his comic into syndication. Afterwards Murray made substantial changes to Rocko. Murray added that the personality of a wallaby mirrored Rocko's humbleness and his tendency to keep his frustrations to himself instead of publicly complaining about them.
Modernity typically refers to a post-traditional, post-medieval historical period, one marked by the move from feudalism (or agrarianism) toward capitalism, industrialization, secularization, rationalization, the nation-state and its constituent institutions and forms of surveillance (Barker 2005, 444). Conceptually, modernity relates to the modern era and to modernism, but forms a distinct concept. Whereas the Enlightenment invokes a specific movement in Western philosophy, modernity tends to refer only to the social relations associated with the rise of capitalism. Modernity may also refer to tendencies in intellectual culture, particularly the movements intertwined with secularisation and post-industrial life, such as Marxism, existentialism, and the formal establishment of social science. In context, modernity has been associated with cultural and intellectual movements of 1436–1789 and extending to the 1970s or later (Toulmin 1992, 3–5).
The term "modern" (Latin modernus from modo, "just now") dates from the 5th century, originally distinguishing the Christian era from the Pagan era, yet the word entered general usage only in the 17th-century quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns — debating: "Is Modern culture superior to Classical (Græco–Roman) culture?" — a literary and artistic quarrel within the Académie française in the early 1690s.
And you know
They make you want it
When you see it on the TV shows
And maybe then
You might buy it
If it makes you feel homed and hosed
You want it
You want it
You want it
You want it
They try to tell you this is modern life
Can't you see
That they want us
To be brainwashed into their big schemes
So I can tell
I see sex cells
Cause it's a common reoccurring theme
You want it
You want it
You want it
You want it
It's a modern life
But it's not what you're looking for.
(Woah-oh, it's a modern life.)
It's a modern life
But it's not what it's supposed to be.
(Woah-oh, it's a modern life.)
Once the danger was there
But it got tossed from the can.
Too many courts used to carry out the plan.
You try to make a difference
But you're just another man.
It's a modern life
But it's not what you're looking for.
(Woah-oh, what you're looking for.)
(Woah-oh, time to let it go.)
It's a modern life
But it's not what it's supposed to be.
(Woah-oh, it's a modern life.)
It's a modern life
But it looks like it came from a zoo
(Woah-oh, like it came from a zoo.)
You had a different idea
But now you're just out of luck.
You hunt a bargain just to save a buck.
Now you're still on the job
And it looks like you're stuck.
It's a modern life
But it's not what you're looking for.
(Woah-oh, it's a modern life.)
It's a modern life
But it reads better on tv.
(Woah-oh, it's a modern life.)
(Time to pay up, mother fucker.)
It's a modern life
But it's not what it's supposed to be.
(Woah-oh, it's a modern life.)
It's a modern life
But it looks like it came from a zoo
(Woah-oh, like it came from a zoo.)
You had a different idea
But now you're just out of luck.
You hunt a bargain just to save a buck.
Now you're still on the job
And it looks like you're stuck.
It's a modern life
But it's not what you're looking for.
(Woah-oh, it's a modern life.)
(Time to pay up, mother fucker.)
It's a modern life
But it's not what it's supposed to be.
(Woah-oh, it's a modern life.)
(Time to pay up, mother fucker.)
It's a modern life
But it's not what you're looking for.
(Woah-oh, it's a modern life.)
It's a modern life
But it's not what you're looking for.
(Woah-oh, it's a modern life.)
It's a modern life
But it's not what you're looking for.
Upon us all bought and sold into the lie of modern life given all the right things to pacify our anger and strife given the tv to help us forget modeling poisons we place our bets feeling like I can’t see a thing when my eyes are wide open under the millenium’s shadow hear the rain of justice fall awaiting all this time release upon us all under the millenium’s shadow hear the rain of justice fall awaiting all this time upon us all us all the currency of life stretched out to wait the blood on our hands will follow the fashion the innocent blood upon our plates withered in vision a martyred witness kept by contempt from our native stillness glued to the screams on the screen the false idols of order are calling under the millenium’s shadow hear the rain of justice fall awaiting all this time release upon us all under the millenium’s shadow hear the rain of justice fall awaiting all this time released upon us all we all die our choice lies in the time where we grow out of this modern life release upon us all we’re bought and sold into the lie of this fucking modern life our social mask calls our anger happiness we’re all crushed beneath the lie you’ve built calling you to wake the fuck up.