the machine

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I'm standing in the dark corner of everywhere you've ever been. You notice me enough to know I don't fit in, but after that it's just a blur. While you cherish that ignorance, I have gained all that you lose with your lack of awareness.

The light inside you, however unique, is dimmed by the collective mind you embrace. I'd get to know you, but I've met you nine thousand times before. You're coming off the MTV assembly line. You're mind has been sculpted by the white picket fence dream. The world is filled with a product that has met and exceeded demands. That product is you, and your worth crashed when you flooded the market with copies of copies of you.

Individuality is not something you can buy. It's not something you can call yourself when who you are is a poster boy or girl for the status quo. I've seen you marketed on Hot-Topic ads. I've watched you walk the streets in a thousand tailor made variations of the suit you have on. I've had my fill of everyone crammed inside this mold of so called alienation and preach about how they suffer as pariahs and outsiders.

Everyone pretends they want out, but all they do is scurry like insects, trying to find their place within the system. All across the spectrum of conformity people like you jump to fit in.

From this corner in every room, it's all the same. Corporate board meetings or local rock shows, you're all the same. You'll never see me because you can't even see yourself for what you are.

You all want out, but in denying yourself the power to choose for yourself, you went deeper in than ever before. And from here, I try not to boast, but I'm the only outsider you'll ever meet. Knowledge is power and with it you'll find the key that opens all doors.

If you want to see where ignorance leads, look around, it's taking you nowhere. You're going to die as you live, unhappily but blissful.

That wasn't pretentious and narcissistic.

Are you f*****g serious?

Do you even know what a true outsider is? Better yet, do you even know what knowledge is?

Thing is, the same thing has been said so many times over for so many hundreds of years, it isn't funny. It's youth calling Just give a gentle nod of the head, smile and know that it will change. If it doesn't change, like all things static, it will fall of it's own wieght.

But in a round about way, he is talking about the joker and the thief. Thing is, he probabaly doesn't know it.

If you ever seek knowledge (wisdom) pray you can't see it. If you see it, you've just met power. The two are very different.

See me? Son all I do is hold up the mirror. You do the rest.

i liked it

Does anyone?

No, but the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. (Proverbs 1:7)

Indeed. For one needs to know their opponent.

To tell the truth people don't want to be different, they're supposed to get and support their own style just because its cheating to take someone else's (ie. showing yourself to be a higher grade replica than you really are). Welcome to the world of bears fighting, elk butting antlers, monkeys having tribal wars, and us for the most part only being different from the rest of that by our own self-taught illusions. No, I wouldn't say we're soulless necessarily but that really doesn't seem to hold the power - life and societal economics does, samhein you're a product of that yourself because what competencies and outsider strengths you see yourself possessing are merely a process of you focusing on what you do have and mitigating the things you don't have as efficiently as you can, its what we as humans do and part of what makes us so mechanical to a degree.

Agreed. I ALWAYS learn faster when someone is holding a gun to my head.

more like the beginning of ignorance.

you'd know all about it, ska. i take yours as expert opinion when it comes to ignorance.

Welcome, my son, welcome to the machine..... Pink Floyd 1975.

Video killed the radio star..... Buggles 1980.

We have the ultimate power though; the power to switch the damn thing off.

Oh, Ragtime, how can I fear your Lord and master when he is no lord and master of mine? I follow Pagan beliefs, and my knowledge has been as firm as always, and is growing ever more. So to me, that verse in proverbs means nothing. Oh, you might say I'm hell-bound for being separated from your god, but as I do not believe in him, and do not believe in hell OR Satan, I have no worries.

where is the rest of the antichristian thugs?

Sheltering from the Christian thugs.

*yawns*

Here.