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In the labyrinth of time, where truth and lies dance, I wander among the shadows of thoughts, seeking wisdom's light, Wondering why, in recent centuries, the learned have lost their way in the mist, While the simple have carried the flicker of truth in their palms. I see around me puppets of knowledge, moved by invisible strings, Institutions like sandcastles, built on the foundation of illusion, Where elites weave their web of power, wrapping the world in propaganda's silk, And we, blind and deaf, dance to their rhythm, not knowing that we don't know. I float on waves of collective memory, among fragments of distorted reality, Where ideas are born mutilated, where truth is sanitized in sterile laboratories, Where gender and identity are color splotches in a chaotic kaleidoscope, And science bows to ideology, like an old oak in a storm. I hear the echo of voices from outside the walls of academia, Organic intellectuals, wild flowers in the garden of conformity, They are the seeds of thought revolution, the germ of change, But who listens to them in the din of prefabricated information? I wonder, with a heavy heart and a foggy mind, How long until the mask falls, Until we see that the king is naked, that the emperor has no clothes, That the institutions we've pinned our hopes on are houses of cards? I see educated people believing in chimeras, in ghosts of progress, Fifty-eight genders dancing on the edge of absurdity, Marriages reinvented, science decolonized, a world upside down, And I think of the wise words: "Only intellectuals can believe such nonsense." In this night of consciousness, under the starry sky of unanswered questions, I pray it's not too late when the veil falls, When educated and uneducated realize they've been fooled, That the hearts of those in power beat to the rhythm of money, not compassion. So I wander further in the labyrinth of thoughts, Seeking not answers, but better questions, Hoping that somewhere, in the mist of the future, Truth will rise like a new sun, illuminating the minds and hearts of all.
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