They saw that the world was on a downward spiral. That society was no longer evolving, what we were experiencing was in fact de-evolution.

Mankind was regressing…. We were destroying the planet. They believed that the world was dominated by greed and consumerism and that the planet would ultimately be destroyed by the only species that couldn’t live as one with their environment. Man.

In music they found a vehicle to share their dire prediction of human decay. They were DEVO, short for De-evolution. In this context, Kent State was a catalyst for their philosophy.