(building your own) PRISON

What to say about this song...

It's written to humanity, about its current situation. Imagine though that humanity is embodied by a middle aged, middle class professional probably born in the 60's who lives in a nice house in a nice town, village or suburb.

They've lived through the most free and prosperous time in modern history by far. Everything has come quite easy to them and, so far, that seems to continue. They believe they'll get back to normal soon if everybody just follows the rules, and takes the vaccine, like them.

About lockdown and the covid restrictions this person might say "I'm fine with what the government has done... my life is fine and I approve of every step the government has taken".

Such people have completely taken western freedoms for granted, to the point where they still don't realise or care what it will mean to lose them.

They have been turned into dumb animals more or less by being spoilt.

Dumbed down and softened so long, they don't think that tyranny's wrong.

So then, you might wonder: why were the populations of western countries allowed this human lifetime's worth of relative freedom and prosperity?

Well, I wonder if it was partly to soften people, and make them mentally lazy, perhaps so that they wouldn't realise that they were helping to build a permanent technological infrastructure that would guarantee their enslavement.

Or, to put it more simply, they were building their own prison.