Not forcing us to "come of age", so much as giving us time to do so. And some of the later scenes, as and after the children of the new race start appearing - the boy saved from a tsunami by the Overlords, the murderously violent sports indulged in by the remnants of Humanity 1.0, the island of artists blowing themselves up rather than sink into savagery, and the final union of humanity with the Overmind - can be seen or intuited in the song.
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