The World is Mad with Technos

 

 

 

Who looms ominous over the body of Gaia?

Metal extendable hands prying open the lush vulva of Gaia—

Who since 17th Century monomaniacal Descartes & Newton mind matter

        clockwork dogma—Laplace took to logical conclusion & biochemical

        brain doctors still subscribe—who since rules?

And secret global powers of military high-tech corporate control raise up

in boardroom worship & plot the destiny of billions of human souls—

Who does world worship more than Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, Buddha, Shiva?

Who shining titanium sheathed? Who titan of brave new microchip world?

 

                        All hail, Technos!

 

Technos, new Superpower of Earth! bigger than America,

        swallowing the UN, shrinking the planet!

Technos crisscrossing the skies in contrail self-proclaiming banners:

 

        I am the new Superpower!

 

        All hail, Technos!   Technos rules!

 

Technos on streetcorner, Technos in jungle, Technos at North Pole

Technos old industry, Technos post-industry, Technos social

        engineering

Technos highways, Technos in the office, Technos for the home

Technos plastered all over media orgy 24 hours a day

Technos doctors, Technos managers, Technos generals, Technos police

Technos multi-appendages plowing & draining & drilling & cutting,

        leveling all to common denominator

Technos brain tanks calculating & analyzing & projecting & managing,

        executing its Plan

 

Told we were in 50s childhood,

        Technos can do all things

        Technos is mighty

        Technos will save us

        Praise Technos!

        Praise the wonders of Technos!

 

Technos in capsules & tablets, Technos liquid in a bottle

Technos in cereal, Technos in soup, Technos in instant drink

Technos making babies, Technos on the phone, Technos banking,

        Technos while you sleep

Technos adventure, Technos recreation, Technos fashion,

        Technos sound & Technos rock

Technos missiles smart as the eagle’s eye

Technos in sex, orgasm on command

Technos altered viruses for genecide conspiracy

Technos in computer-video classroom, no more teacher

Technos in finance consultation, your fate figured by numbers

Technos in cyberspace Internet wired up RAM-powered kids

Technos footprints left in Moon dust

Technos sending human ego greeting beyond the solar system

 

        To what end?

 

        Will we be allowed

        in outer space to extend?

 

 

20th Century one long ad & commercial for Technos,

billboard for Technos, now Internet millions of Web sites for Technos—

To this day still,

        Technos will save us

        Technos will save us

 

Understand America,

        Technos alone will not save us

        Technos will enslave us

 

Technos will command implantable biochip unleashed armies

        upon the nations

Children already held up & sacrificed in computer-driven rituals,

        their mindsap spilled out on the altar of the monitor

Soon, cyborg children of no memory will roam the streets

Our citizens barcode wristed & ELF psychotronic mind altered

Technos satellites will know where you hide

Earth's secret rulers secretly cloned could rule forever

Virtual reality will be replaceable reality of choice

Gaia ravaged & barren, every inch Technos

All obedient to Technos

 

        & no place for Psyche

 

 

               But where danger is

        grows the saving power also*

 

 

In what Age Aquarius year will Psyche

        face off with Technos?

When will Technos bow before Psyche,

        admit to be equal?

When will Technos & Psyche

        a divine syzygy

                                 be?

 

 

 

 

1997

 

* Friedrich Hölderlin