Communication 146

habitually distracted

there’s a ghost in the machine and it needs to be extracted
we’re fixated on the screen, a nation distracted,
status updates and memes
moving images in monochrome,
a ‘celebrity obsession’ syndrome,
I can’t quite believe the carnage
800 channels of choreographed garbage,
our responses are monitored
and mirrored to harvest,
we’re moving at such a pace
faster than I anticipated
and as I’m dissected and sold for parts,
the collective consciousness is infiltrated,
this sudden death of self is an infection
within my philosophy,
a
new
form
of
control
through
A.I technology
continues to hijack our physiology,
its weaving its way deep within the skin,
why aren’t we questioning its purpose?
we’re being imprisoned by an evolving algorithm,
these new forms of media keep us conditioned,
forever confined to an open prison
with no windows or walls
where the few police the many,
the creation of the human machine
has taken decades to fine tune accurately
we’ve embraced such intrusion so naturally,
the new age will dawn and we’ll be discarded,
if you believe the hype then you’re mentally retarded,
you’re side-tracked and open to attack
habitually distracted by a constant need for
‘digital crack’, you’ll never give it up,
you’ve got no backbone, laid to waste through
a ‘celebrity obsession’ syndrome