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GSM:TABRITMIA
You sign “their” contract,
you go to the drill,
and a few weeks later,
your face is on “their” news.
A few months later,
you receive your check,
from donations to your fake memorial
or from the movie role “they” let you play.
How does it feel
when you get “their” check?
How does it feel
when you see your face
while watching “their” news?
How does it feel
when you play your songs,
knowing “their” news story
was just a drill all along?
How does it feel
as you live well
while you see “their” news narrative
being used to push policies
to make humanity unfree?
(Or maybe it’s you,
acting as a politician,
for “their” family or corporation
pushing those policies?
Or maybe it’s you
acting as humanity’s ‘alternative’
on “their” behalf
in order to weaken us for “them?”)
Maybe you were just trying to be famous,
wanting to become a star,
and thought playing “their” games
wasn’t going too far.
Maybe you were raised as a child
by “their” families
that told you,
“You’re helping people,” through “their” trickery.
Maybe you were from a broken past,
wanting something that could fill you up at last,
gaslit by “them,”
and now feeling nothing but numb again?
I can’t step into your world;
I can’t be that fake,
and even “their” corporations
wouldn’t hire me so late.
Have a look in the mirror.
Why do you hesitate?
Can’t face this reality?
“They” don’t care about you!
You’re just “their” tool –
a way to be humanity’s fool
and to break you, too.
Is your paycheck
worth destroying humanity
by creating codependence,
anxiety,
and anomie?
For those of you
who lived a life gaslit:
Find those who understand you,
and escape “their” tyranny,
and warn humanity.
For those of you
raised by “their” families
yet have a tinge of conscience:
Find those who understand you,
and escape “their” tyranny,
and warn humanity.
To those of you
who see no harm in playing “their” games
in order to become a star:
Look in the mirror,
and see how empty you are!
You sign “their” contract,
you go to the drill,
and a few weeks later,
your face is on “their” news.
A few months later,
you receive your check
from donations to your fake memorial
or from the movie role “they” let you play.
How does it feel
when you get “their” check?