00000 ' Independent Thought ' - alpha circle version 5 00001 Teachers of language, history, science, and art,
00010 Our educators for thirteen years or longer
00011 Taught us how we must perceive the existing world;
00100 Taught form and structure in metered time, bells rung to
00101 Mark our daily drills in the yard. And numbered off,
00110 We are forced to wade through rivers of blood and
00111 Mountains engraved with the words of the modern god,
01000 Textbooks of language, history, science, and art.
01001 So alike we are that when we finish the race
01010 We must wear robes of black, of mourning, of sorrow,
01011 For we were never given that which is our right,
01100 The right to think, the right to feel - to live unlike
01101 Mechanical animals, prefabricated
01110 And incapable of that which is most human.
01111 Our language, our history, our science, our art
10000 Have taken away the intellect that shaped them.
10001 We are led by programmed mortals, uninspired
10010 By the greatness that we are human, capable
10011 Of any path that we may choose. But choice is gone,
10100 So then it must be fate that guides us futureward.
10101 "Ours is the greatest civilisation yet!" say
10110 The words of language, history, science, and art,
10111 So we strive no longer for that which is greater.
11000 We are stagnant, devoid of any goal; so we sit
11001 In our uncontemplation, waiting for the end,
11010 Unable to think, unable to feel. We must
11011 Look around us so that we might live again, for
11110 Even the machines can see that we are dying.
11111 End Program ' return to operating system
