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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

What Do You Mean?

The question I hate the most especially about this project is being in the studio and being asked "what do you mean by machined?" A deadly assault carried out with a keyboard and screen. Terror by technology.
The assault was on me. Written in real time. 

 


It is a based on a true story. At its center is the actions of persons with no regard for others and whose actions endangered the lives of many. It is about the character of the residents of the Albany Park neighborhood in Chicago and the kindness of strangers who I now call friends.A police dept that turned its back on it all. These people are still out there. They will take a life, its just a matter of time and for that reason, Machined returns. To tell the story of their unadulterated inhumanity on the city streets and malicious hackers control the whole scene keyboard warriors masters of the machine



I'm talking automation
Revolution and innovation
Man made pre-determination
Assigned purpose and destination
Limited by what it's been given
It doesnt mingle among the living

Use defined at conception
Altered by man's perception
Evolution in rapid succession
Or prey of misguided deception

Manipulated for gains ill got'
True believers , forget me not
I cannot give freely
I can only be bought
Free market, assembly lot

Madison Avenue can
make me something I'm not
A trendy name-folks like a lot
Techno world, with a CNN spot.

 All eyes will be on thee
Is its fate a Mac or PC?
Which will make the masses
Pick me?

Portable God
Keyboard and screen
Limited dimensionality
But still almighty as far
As they see

Uses beyond wildest dreams
A world to exist without
being seen
Will the truth lie
in what is perceived?
Or has a disguise been made
of the screen.

Are you still asking me
What do I mean?
What happens when purpose
exceeds assigned deeds.

Despite all power
bestowed in code
Gig is doing data in drove
Transport humanity
As far as the screen

It is your job to be
the human being.
Humanity is real even if unseen
Extend imagination
beyond the text on the screen

My purpose cannot create
images and text
read and seen
Its someone real
despite invisibility

To deny that faithful leap
Makes on heartless, cruel
and mean.
Fuck are you a Mac or a PC
It's not a God
It's a machine

It has no life, it does not
breath.
Deny humanity beyond the screen
Thats what I mean
Get it now?
I call that "Machined"