What You Have Eaten…

“What You Have Eaten…” [1]

By Claudia Berdella

Program the machines

Bitch about the outcome

I’m curious why people negate 

that they reap what they sow

Unintentionally Calvinistic 

Statistical self-prescribed determinism

A confused ego

But, when is it not so?

Identity is ego:

Fluid, grandiose and vulnerable

Degradation can be exhilarating. 

People revel in misery

Matrix is a metaphor 

for what, are you really sure?

What it really is I think

is a piece of pop culture overly fetishized

for knockoff gnostics

Wannabe wanderers

Yet they make heretics of ‘fellow travelers’ 

“Oppression is the opiate of the masses” [2]

But it’s the chicken and the egg

inside a bucket of pill-pumped crabs

People reap what they sow 

“Prison is in the mind”

Totalitarianism is initially self-imposed and welcomed in open arms

Thunderous applause, so to say

“One thousand mothers are praying for it

  So full of hope and so full of shit

  Build a new God to medicate and to hate…” [3]

Fate is fake

Self-fulfilling prophecy is the butterfly effect in real time

Present action seals future dates

But in the end

the world keeps spinning

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References

[1] Rock N Roll Nigger by Marilyn Manson: 

“'Cause I am the All American Antichrist

I was made in America
And America hates me for what I am
I am your shit you should be ashamed
Of what you have eaten, I'm a rock 'n roll nigger”

[2] Assume The Position by Boyd Rice:

“Oppression is the opiate of the masses People generally get off on it Those at the bottom thrive under conditions of oppression And those at the top revel in imposing such conditions Human nature demands it Society, exactly as it now exists Is the ultimate expression of sadomasochism in action This isn't S&M as a mere game There's no role-playing involved The roles are all real With real masters and real servants There's no dressing up required to be a player in this enactment You don't have to wear your handkerchief in a certain pocket to signal your position as a sadist or masochist either You simply assume the position This is sadomasochism not as a fetish, but in practical application The sting of the riding crop is replaced by a more generalized sort of malaise But when all is said and done It is still an expression of people luxuriating in pain and submission To say that people love to suffer is viewed as decadent cynicism by many But a cursory glance at the world around us would definitely seem to support such a thesis How telling it is that even in the context of a system created in absolute ignorance of man's true character He remains true to his nature regardless”

[3]Rock Is Dead by Marilyn Manson