We do not see each other's faces
It's actually kind of gross if we ever get that close anymore
We lost the ability to discern emotions from facial expressions and tonal traces
That there genetically programmed intuitions telling us a smile is a smile is some jurassic lore
Everything is socially constructed, we discovered
and so we killed the smile
and happy is an emotion thats neither federally insured nor officially covered
just check the website if you have any questions
you see, confusion was the first official emotion when all others were banned
At first I was unofficially depressed
and almost refused to participate in what they ominously called "the game"
But every feeling reported was necessary to make a harmonious whole
The calculus sympathetic was of "paramount importance" said Mister leader
He needed to know how much was left in the world
It was worse not to dial in than anything else
because that meant you were overtaken by unofficial emotions and would immediately die
This was not the difference between fake and true emotionality
They did not want you to hide how you truly felt or act a certain contrived way
the purpose was to eradicate any trace of socialization that led you to believe in your own nature
the calculus sympathetic generated our entire psychological world
we created it after we found out we are nothing but a result of a space-time compression
Your poem sheds a whole new light on this one:
ReplyDelete"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
"self evident truths" with your "programmed intuitions"
"unalienable rights"........"the purpose was to eradicate any trace of socialization that led you to believe in your own nature"
"pursuit of Happiness"...."Everything is socially constructed, we discovered and so we killed the smile and happy is an emotion thats neither federally insured nor officially covered"
really good.