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"The Broken Valkyrie" when the artificial sun replaced true Light, revolution was a forgotten Valkyrie, Liberty had been put to bed broken whore of Babylon no longer holding the torch for anyone; women and men grew to love their servitude, complacency skewered their fever, it, like a contagion spread a worldly blanket over all, viral dreams of revolution ceased; nothing bloomed under that artificial sun, the colour grey grew scales over the fake blue eggshell sky, underneath we trudged along no longer living just existing, luke warm lapdog conditions became the norm every day, the lizards monitored our circadian rhythms, we took our RAT tests and medicine like obedient children being reverently administered some strange new religion We no longer stood together, we followed each other not leading shuffling in sad do as you are told don’t break the rules rock the boat lines, we walked over anything different with large avoidance gingerly piecing our bland mosaic lives together with the the clag they provided us, but somehow subconsciously we just knew it didn’t stick, but we didn't say or do anything; we looked in the mirrors with horror unnaturally subsiding each day, to understand bit by bit we were being ridden, we had become uniformed and un-unique sad beasts, we hung like stale macrame hypnotised to our conditioned walls of freedom we never left our corners anymore to walk tightrope some say in quiet unrest they still dream - we pity them now, those uneasy somnambulists we are told to ignore them, for they are perilous contiguous lepers strapping free will like swords to their borderlines, states of recalcitrance to be avoided at all costs, whispering their vehemence like contained eruptions - to contract their mindset is a certain death just like a close contact virus we understand "Now" though - Now, we are all as one hive mind united blessed be for peace, and our hard earned sanity - any talk of what we once thought was revolution, is a dream, in truth they teach us, it is a ridiculous concept, an amusing myth there is no more worshipping censored whores wearing thorny crowns of liberty there is no more worshipping intangible things of stupid serendipity nor words in books that are forbidden that must never again be read they have all been burned or hidden (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) "RunWayAway"/Thom Yorke https://youtu.be/jwN4ZZxBYi4 “Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.” "In “Brave New World, Huxley writes that, in the end, people ‘will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, ‘make us your slaves but feed us’. In this society and in ours, people are comfortable handing over freedom to people in power in exchange for safety and stability. In this exchange, people learn to love their servitude, choosing it over any dreams of revolution”. Artificial Sun https://www.space.com/china-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-five-times-hotter-than-the-sun RAT Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_antigen_test Communism -v- Fascism https://www.diffen.com/difference/Communism_vs_Fascism Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: A Cautionary Tale of Totalitarian Ideology", Shane Hossain https://minnesotaenglishjournalonline.org/2020/05/05/aldous-huxleys-brave-new-world-a-cautionary-tale-of-totalitarian-ideology-by-shahin-hossain/ "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley, eBook https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/huxleya-bravenewworld/huxleya-bravenewworld-00-h.html LYRICS/"RunWayAway", Thom Yorke https://genius.com/Thom-yorke-runwayaway-lyrics
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