Asymmetries of knowledge: from us but not for us We know not what to believe, and pliably self-truss Fed with masterful camouflage, rhetoric and misdirection One-way mirrors lead purposeful cultural misappropriation The screen may be blank; but the machine not off Recording where we are, each invisible ache and cough Meantime we have consented, to renounce and to share On online agreements aplenty that legally strip us bare Mountains of legalese that no-one could ever read Finding precedent somewhere supporting corporate greed Up they fly, inequalities, pecking at the base More and more unbalanced, staring us in the face So much divulged and scanned, we are so very known More than we know ourselves, innocently prone To algorithms and capture, continuously refined Rendering all, patterns of profit, with us completely blind Without mercy information keeps on coming in Databases accumulate, the surveillance games begin Whether keyboard, money, body, thought or sin Leeched we are of determination: we cannot win.
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