The rise and rise of the consumer zombie apocalypse
Mindlessly sleepwalking, texting and screen-swiping through the city-streets
From left to right, in dumbed-down, eyes-to-the-ground, automation
A brain-dead-lack of independent thinking
Pre-programmed avoidance conditioning
With an absence of common greetings, such as; ‘Hello’ and ‘Good morning’
A singular, lack of sympathetic, or empathetic acknowledgment of other human beings
Resulting in an epidemic of narcissism, that’s hardwired-in
No choice now but to swallow the smart-sim pill
To give away one’s power and abdicate all free will
To become another blue dot in the GPS matrix
Trapped inside-the-box, with all the other clones and non-descript profile-pics
Caged in a wall-less prison of barcodes, passcodes, and ‘QR Codes’
Caught in the crossfire of the compulsory upgrade download
Every hour, on the hour, half past the hour
Bowing on ones knees to the corporate Mecca
Oh Hail! Oh Hail! Seduced by the god of strategic product placement
And the religion of subliminal advertising
Another cog in the machine of aspirational lifestyle desire and consumerism
Complicit in the capitalist pursuit of en-mass homogenisation
A world-wide osmosis of ‘bland’ and ‘same’
At the expense of environmental annihilation and plundering
Hoodwinked into relinquishing all responsibility
A soulless, loveless, absence of integrity
Towards ecological-sustainability and the community
Pulverised into oblivion
I’m alright Jack! Get your own comfort-zone
And if/when you do, then I’ll be back to undermine and humiliate you
To justify my taking it all away from you
Even if we share the same DNA, or went to the same school, OK
Apparently all’s fair in the world of ones and zero’s
And the nine-to-five, tick-tock, tick-tock!
And the loopholes in the microscopic small print
And the disclaimer in the extremely long T’s & C’s (that no one ever reads)
Just click ‘Agree’, download the App, and ‘BUY NOW!’ Click! Click! Click!
Now! Now! Now! Yesterday! On the double-quick! Quick! Quick!
The sooner we can shaft you with a ‘Continuous Payment Authority’ on the sly
Just fill out the form, tick the check-box and apply
More credit, more loans, more interest-free
More repossessed homes and hi-jacked property
Because you must do what society says in order to be ‘happy’
You must have ‘more’ don’t you know? And you must believe what the newspapers say
In order to be a good citizen
So run along now and be a good little human
And do exactly what the robot says, even if it’s morally and spiritually reprehensible, or even criminal
Be a good little robot and do what the program says
Just like all the other robots out there, who-once-were-good-people
Who forgot what their dreams were in the harsh light of day
Who stopped believing that their dreams might just be possible
And can’t even remember who they once were all those years ago, anyway
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Cat Catalyst © iPoem Ltd 2016
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Commissioned by ‘Beyond The Clones’ for their forthcoming EP
https://www.facebook.com/Beyondtheclones/
