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…