Wednesday, July 17, 2013

overlord

Our robotic overlord
Is incubating
Malformed and festering
Spreading and infecting
Primordial encampments encroaching
Every one of you,
Is the beginning
They're building the super being
An extension of their minds
For the sake of convenience
In the name of bigger, better and
More, more, more
We are forced to donate our souls, our very DNA to the dream of safety
Artificial inspiration
Digital comfort
Glowing, suckling asphyxiation
Desperately mining for resources
To abandon the shell you call yourself
Absent actors irrationally switching roles on an abstract carousal
Mindlessly looking for an easy way off
Illuminating the infrastructure with apathy
Growing with your greed
Drowning in indifference
Dull complaining to be set free
Yet you don't know where to go
Or what free even is
Free from decisions?
Free from struggle and pain?
Comatose power cells awaiting instructions
From your robotic overlord

There's a secret
They don't want you to know
The system only works because you let it work
You are afraid and need to know everything about everyone else
You refuse to trust
You can't let the world exist as it is
Turning against each other in the name of what you're heard
They already know everything, but what good is it if nobody cares

Danger,
The relative trick of perception
Others telling you how bad things really are
You let biased opinions become your realities,
Because it is so much easier to just accept what you've been told
Gossip is replacing experience for the lazy
Judgments are being cast out of convenience
Evidence is an afterthought, sympathy and understanding are for the weak
Great barriers are built to blind you
Control is bought and sold as the new currency, harvested from your fear and ignorance
Every one of you has the power to stop this, but you're too busy to know where to start, too meek to raise your voice, too scared to stick your neck out.

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