Dystopian Algorithm

 Dystopian Algorithm

In the Brave New World

There are unprecedented 

revolutions and changes,

Rapid transformations

Cramming information,

and

Blocking information with

censorship.

Busy spreading misinformation

Distracting the population with

Irrelevancies,

For everyTed Talk and 

Wikipedia there are ten

Right wing speaking-Heads.

Science and politics become too 

Complicated for the simple mind.

In complicated times

We switch to memes of cats

And dogs to wile the time

Or worship a celebrity, immersing 

in Gossip supply chains.

Western liberal education to be

Replaced by authoritarianism and

An algorithm for critical thinking,

Communication, collaboration

And creativity replaced by AI.

Strangeness becomes the new 

normal, along with climatic cataclysms

That will all be denied by ruling elite.

Division of labour, with unions  outlawed

The ruling class create the weak.

The algorithm is watching you

It will take over your mind,

It will take over everything.

You must run faster than the 

Bull in the field.

American Creed

 

American Creed

A factory worker in 1950’s with his stay at home mom

Could afford a house, a car, groceries and send their

Kids to college

Gradually those jobs were off-shored to Asia and jobs

In greater demand, unions were labelled communist

Government aid was socialism

And so the jobs left and the gap began to grow wider

Greed was the national creed and so

The rich preached fear, hatred and blamed the immigrants

We soon learned to fight amongst ourselves, and against 

The outside enemy when the enemy lay within.

The jobs paid less, the middle class grew thin and the 

Hate and fear was all that united us, we wore red hats

We shouted hateful slogans, the rich sat back they silently

mocked they

laughed as they counted their cash and our votes.

Now our vets live under bridges, our schools are without

Soul, they post the ten commandments, they say the 

Lord’s prayer, while they take away the lunch programs 

ban the books and fire the teachers who teach students 

to think

It is America the Great for those who do not care to share

Who do not love

Who have no real God

Who live in fear in 2025

As the billionaires smugly smile at the mass ignorance 

That gave them such dominion over the unwashed.