“There is always psychological influence, there’s nothing new about that. All governments, all religions have used it throughout history. The point is that now the means of control are much more efficient. We have computers. We have populations exposed to exactly the same images and words, millions of people every day. So the opportunities to control are much more potent now than they have ever been".
William S. Burroughs
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I entered - Fortunately I was rendered invisible so I could see without being seen-
There were hundreds of computers in lines,
In a large warehouse
All white, walls and uniforms
Workers busy entering in long lines of noughts and ones
Encoded they be into infinitesimal microchips
All black with wires and synapsis
Artificial conditioning
The bells ring
All workers stand in line
Receiving orders from above
For infinite coding of noughts, and more noughts and ones
Microchips shipped away
To a land of dark lies interfaces
and cheap love drives
...Substitutes for human hearts
A Mind-Machine factory