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A febrile parade of horrors advancing:
you admonish the thin end of this wedge
and extol the virtue of discourse to engage
the steadfast illogical
Ascetic disarming
Ecstatic in the sacrifice of your will to intervene
to sever the tongue and silence their putrid speech
For the greater good and a greater myth of nationhood
No virtue in tolerance
for those who feign Europhobic persecution
with resolute promises of violence
Manipulation of your deference
to an absolute conception of speech rights
Shirk the burden of agency
Omniscient observer: unjudging, civil, pure
A servant of reason
Affirming allegiance to the state - peacekeepers (LGM-118)
Bloodstained marketplace of ideas
Defend to the death their right to say it
Defend to the death their right to a platform
The arc is long, bent by power without confrontation
And you are their last line of defense
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The Mole & The Snake
11:22
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"A snake's coils are even more intricate than a mole's burrow."
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Coltan clouded machinations
expropriate cooperation
Transform speech acts to commodities
Means absolved
Repetition: pursuit of reality
Consume a surrogate, open the door
To pleasure, production, surveillance
Inclusion, sharing, community: pretexts for profit
We set aside our reversals of relations
Reborn as information, rewritten as users, concentrations
of demographics and registered traffic
Utopic vision of freedom from gatekeepers
The center won't crumble, it just disappears
into the landscape -- the ether
The coolant tanks that mask the seams
Simulate, intensify, appropriate
the networked power that permeates our wretched lives
Reintermediate
Quantified affirmation of success and self
A subsumption of all faculties
Wrung dry
In our encircling desire
gracious prophets beckon you
to speak, to create, to commit to
dependence on systems that promise the real.
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