Today’s ‘Smart City’ is where training and education

Is no longer about following one’s true vocation

But somehow has became all about programming and conditioning

Schooled to become another brick-in-the-wall, another cog-in-the-machine

Drilled in from such an early age that money supplants religion

Where each new emerging generation

Shops til they drop, ’til they’re so far in debt

They’re trapped in a prison of desire and consumerism

Seduced by strategic product placement and subliminal advertising

Victims of a society built upon capitalism

No escape! Do not pass ‘Go’! Do not collect £200!

Do not buy a Hotel, (let alone ones own house)

In fact go straight to Jail! Caged like a wild animal

In a Zoo, that ate the bait, who swallowed the smart-sim pill

Herded along with all the other “must-do’s” and “should-have-done’s”

On the road to ‘Blandsville‘ in downtown ‘Homogenisation‘

Complete abdication of one’s ability to critically think for oneself, or distill information

From womb-to-tomb and into self-annihilation…