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The Index of Forbidden Books

V6

Introduction .... Faced with the spread of dangerous ideas ... The Index of Forbidden Books was created, aiming to protect religious orthodoxy... Today, single-minded conformity is the rule... ​[Verse 1] At first the danger was lesser, few heretical writings in circulation. The slowness of manual copying was the limitation. On a case-by-case basis, during councils, a few condemnations fall. With the rise of printing, the book becomes a product of mass and propagation. Pope Alexander VI in fifteen hundred and one [1501], demands beforehand that any publication has ecclesiastical authority for printing. The Fifth Council of Latran in fifteen hundred and fifteen [1515], formalizes preventive censorship. In [1546 and 1554] fifteen hundred and forty-six and fifteen hundred and fifty-four, lists of forbidden works are published for the population. ​[Chorus] Index, index librorum prohibitorum... The black list of our thoughts... Single-minded thought and condemned light... The matrix destroys books, just as pyres burned them by fire... Let's awaken our minds, let's open our eyes!... ​[Verse 2] The Roman Index sees the light of day in fifteen hundred and fifty-nine [1559], Pope Paul IV requesting its publication. For the pyres, heretics, and literary and philosophical works. Some religious books no longer belong to the Biblical canon. Works judged immoral, dangerous to the mind, or even heretical. In fifteen hundred and seventy-one [1571], the Council of Trent: the Congregation of the Index rationalized. Updating and examining forbidden works, and publishing revised versions. ​[Chorus] Index, index librorum prohibitorum... The black list of our thoughts... Single-minded thought and condemned light... The matrix destroys books, just as pyres burned them by fire... Let's awaken our minds, let's open our eyes!... ​[Verse 3] In 1966, the abolition of the Index is pronounced. A reform of Vatican II is announced facing the modern world. Penal sanctions for reading certain books are lifted. This happened in a dark era. And today, what about these shadows? Are we not living a 2nd Inquisition? Digital library....certainly practical! As a result, some no longer have the right to publication. The real one, the paper one you take in your hands and that holds your attention. Every day thousands of books are destroyed by Artificial Intelligence in silence. While single-minded thought takes its place. The Inquisition is here, the matrix telling us how to think, it threatens. ​[Chorus] Index, index librorum prohibitorum... The black list of our thoughts... Single-minded thought and condemned light... The matrix destroys books, just as pyres burned them by fire... Let's awaken our minds, let's open our eyes!... ​[Outro] In the secret of the Vatican Libraries, revelations are held... Once unveiled they will shake our humanity, updating our creation... And perhaps even beyond our imagination... In libertate animus exsultat ....In libertate animus exsultat .... In freedom, the spirit blooms with joy ...with joy... In libertate animus exsultat ..exsultat....