‘the role of technology is best understood not as an
agent of capital but rather as an agent of imagination’
– Ruby Thélot, ‘Mining the Future’
The conspiracy farmer grew them big and tall
with shallow roots: stories to suit all sizes,
fantasies of corruption and lies, plans to
take over the world, turn us all into robots.
The solution, he says, can be found within,
or possibly the aliens know, which is why
they keep arriving for quick visits. Anyway,
we must all hold hands and hum, support
each other and resist everything that’s wrong.
We should eat meat, buy local veg, throw away
our phones, turn the radio off, and destroy A.I.
His future is terrifying, a world of mind control
and electromagnetic domination, with all our
movements mapped and freedoms overruled.
We are on earth but are part of the cosmos,
or the self indoctrinated victims of delusion.
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© Rupert M Loydell
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