please accept the terms & conditions before you proceed...
*& please, enter at your own risk!*
∞
Will you allow technology to fully access your identity?
□ yes or □ NO!
did you even
read
the terms&conditions?
also known as
monsters' diction
/ modernistic snot
condemn its riots
not stoicism, nerd
or crimson diets;
demonic tort sins
disclaimer:
perhaps you should pretend
to feign interest in
those lists of lengthy descriptions
never quite captured by our cognition
though not lost upon our inhibition
that may more or less explicitly detail
all the vicious ways in which
we are being unmistakably,
blatantly blackmailed
against our will / with our own consent
when we check the box that reads; "accept"
we exploit our most private content
to the highest bidder
so dare yourself to reconsider...
Welcome to the 18th year of century 21; the new millennium.
we are living in a world where
our most significant intimacies are shared
between the tips of our fingers
& the touch of a screen
reflecting our digitized lives
before prying eyes
that magnify
the things we hide
*(but you can't hide,
don’t try)*
while we wander through life
roaming via cellular connection
guided by the gentle misdirection
of the electronic dimension
seductive despite the apprehension
lurking beneath the tightening tension
that tethers us to the tender touch
of technological temptation
hypnotizing us in its animation
as it memorizes us & analyzes what
we think, say & do online upon every occasion
while we continue to ignore the trepidation
lingering within our realization
that children today will be born
with fluorescent addiction
flowing through their veins,
a condition nothing short of inhumane
you might say society's to blame
but no one prepared us for this high-tech hurricane
humankind's claim to fame
a reality we deemed difficult to obtain
artificial intelligence will never be worth more than a brain
but we've created a world where eventually nothing else will remain
whatever humanity is
we seem to be losing touch
with what it used to be
Who would have ever guessed that our fingertips could crave a screen's touch to a human's?
*we have become parasites that feed
upon the delights emitted by the blue light
of our digital paradise
where precious memories are measured by megabytes
archived to our favorite device
to which we automatically sacrifice our rights
without thinking twice
so here's a word of advice:
don't roll the virtual dice
because this wi-fi powered world won't play nice*
Is this the real life?
Apr 20, 2017
Apr 20, 2017 at 4:10 PM UTC
please accept the terms & conditions before you proceed...
*& please, enter at your own risk!*
∞
Will you allow technology to fully access your identity?
□ yes or □ NO!
did you even
read
the terms&conditions?
also known as
monsters' diction
/ modernistic snot
condemn its riots
not stoicism, nerd
or crimson diets;
demonic tort sins
disclaimer:
perhaps you should pretend
to feign interest in
those lists of lengthy descriptions
never quite captured by our cognition
though not lost upon our inhibition
that may more or less explicitly detail
all the vicious ways in which
we are being unmistakably,
blatantly blackmailed
against our will / with our own consent
when we check the box that reads; "accept"
we exploit our most private content
to the highest bidder
so dare yourself to reconsider...
Welcome to the 18th year of century 21; the new millennium.
we are living in a world where
our most significant intimacies are shared
between the tips of our fingers
& the touch of a screen
reflecting our digitized lives
before prying eyes
that magnify
the things we hide
*(but you can't hide,
don’t try)*
while we wander through life
roaming via cellular connection
guided by the gentle misdirection
of the electronic dimension
seductive despite the apprehension
lurking beneath the tightening tension
that tethers us to the tender touch
of technological temptation
hypnotizing us in its animation
as it memorizes us & analyzes what
we think, say & do online upon every occasion
while we continue to ignore the trepidation
lingering within our realization
that children today will be born
with fluorescent addiction
flowing through their veins,
a condition nothing short of inhumane
you might say society's to blame
but no one prepared us for this high-tech hurricane
humankind's claim to fame
a reality we deemed difficult to obtain
artificial intelligence will never be worth more than a brain
but we've created a world where eventually nothing else will remain
whatever humanity is
we seem to be losing touch
with what it used to be
Who would have ever guessed that our fingertips could crave a screen's touch to a human's?
*we have become parasites that feed
upon the delights emitted by the blue light
of our digital paradise
where precious memories are measured by megabytes
archived to our favorite device
to which we automatically sacrifice our rights
without thinking twice
so here's a word of advice:
don't roll the virtual dice
because this wi-fi powered world won't play nice*
Is this the real life?
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