I can understand why this album would be alienating to a lot of people--Culdesac had themes of aspiring toward greatness and success, but not knowing how to handle it once you got it. Camp is more about personal identity, and that's not something everyone can relate to. But not feeling "black"...
How long did future Spock and "present" Spock know about each other?
And why the hell was he just chilling in the desert like that when there was a Starfleet outpost so close by?
Yeah, This Perfect Life runs in stark contrast to The Pink Lavalamp, which,aside from two tracks ("Music [Intro]" and "I'll be Around [Outro]"), was almost ENTIRELY optimistic.
Maybe it's because that one came out in December, and he was still on that Obama high or something.