TAO Pt 2 - SHAD

We are always conquering nature

Human nature will be the last part of nature

To surrender to man

The battle will indeed be won

But who, precisely, will have won it?

For the power of man to make himself what he pleases

Means, as we have seen

The power of some men to make other men what they please

We living in a brave new world

Full of strange new cravings

A little lss dope

A lot more vaping

STIs and other viral snsations

Just ‘cause it’s new

That don’t make it innovation

I had to switch up the vista

Flickr to Insta

Flipped through some pictures

Man I clicked through some sisters

Seen a Tegan and a Sara

Sabrina and a Lara

A Venus and Serena

And a Tia and Tamera

I’m still looking for something

I’m not seeing in the mirror

Will a million pictures

Really help me see it any clearer though?

Are we looking for a miracle

Or merely pheromones

Or just not being alone

Growing weary?

Was talking all this theory

With a woman named Siri

And I nearly fell in love

So I had to pull the plug

Seems kinda like we’re drug fiends

When what we stream hits the blood stream

Touching us deep beneath the touch screens

The main objection is that if man chooses

To treat himself as raw material

Raw material he will be

We’ve been trying to have it both ways

It is impossible

Either we are rational spirit

Obliged forever to obey

The absolute values of «the tao»

Or else we are mere nature

To me kneaded and cut into new shapes

For the pleasures of masters

We’ve been trapped in this fast-paced rat race

And now they turned the race track into ad space

Tracked, traced when I open up a map: Waze

Or any chat-based app in the last days

Where have all the poets gone?

We can’t hold our focus long enough

With these emoticons and Pokemon Gos

Trying to go beyond those

You gotta be, like, borderline Obi-wan!

Bro, on my damn applications

Brand activations

Got it all now

Only don’t have the patience

I’m not saying let’s make a shift back to basics

But ain’t no spaceships gon' take us out this matrix

What we face is bonafide global-wide changes

Old ways is gone

Cool but what are they replaced with?

Business as usual?

Business is brutal

And it’s so big now

That all resistance is futile

Let that dream die quick

And take a Uber to the funeral

You could Facebook it live

And find the grave on Google

Refusal to comply can result in your removal

From a future they devise

‘Cause they decide who’s useful

It is not that they are bad men

They are not men at all

Stepping outside the tao

They have stepped into the void

Nor are their subjects necessarily unhappy men

They are not men at all

They are artifacts

Man’s final conquest has proved to be

The abolition of man