Confirmation bias causes us to discard information that goes against our existing beliefs. We even choose our friends and hobbies according to our existing beliefs.

Many belief systems preach the value of freedom: we need to be able to make autonomous decisions without interference. Ironically, once we are welded to our ideas, confirmation bias reduces our freedom to choose them, and even controls huge amount of our daily lives.

It’s like when Socrates called himself ignorant just so the other person showed his own ignorance by rendering what should be right or wrong but, in the case, the “Freedom Preachers” who taught liberty are shown as clowns in the end, chained to their own arrogance.

The tree is a metaphor for American prosperity. During his election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly asserted that America was being undermined by Far Eastern countries, particularly China. He has labelled China a “currency manipulator”, accused them of fabricating global warming, and compared Sino-American trade to rape.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385?lang=en
The creepy imagery of scarecrows in the night acknowledges that economic impotency is scary, but the lazy cliché ridicules Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric. There aren’t really scarecrows eating your fruit.

Scarecrows are insubstantial and lack integrity. This is ironic, because the speaker is himself more concerned about money than integrity.

This mirrors the “Here, There, and Everywhere” interpolation from the released version of “White Ferrari”. The first verse of the Beatles song begins:

Here, making each day of the year
Changing my life with the wave of her hand
Nobody can deny that there’s something there
There, running my hands through her hair

Like McCartney on that song, Ocean is enjoying his lover’s presence. Unlike McCartney, he both addresses them directly, which humanises them, and uses gender-neutral language reflecting his own bisexuxality.

I Think I’m Andrea loves alternative rock and alt pop. He has a remarkable 6,000 IQ on Garbage (source of his username), and also annotates Bjork, Marina and the Diamonds, The Cardigans, Tori Amos, Damon Albarn, Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, and Wolf Alice.

He was made an editor by Vesuvius, shortly after reaching 1,000 IQ.

One day, at the peak of Rock Genius, a new user appeared on the leaderboards with about 2,000 IQ on his first day. All the Rock Genius mods – there were about seven or eight at the time – lost their shit. This was incredible. His annotations were a bit long and often in the first person, but there were so many…

A couple of days later, all annotations reviewed, he was made an editor. A few months later, he was a mod. A few years later, he was hired.

Ewok is a machine. He does everything, and he does it incredibly. He cleans pages, he turns new users into editors, and he shows up all over the site pushing new initiatives. There is an east wind blowing, and its name is Ewok.