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Brain Police

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Theresa Paulfranz
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As well as slaves in thought

Then their time and effort is wasted and taken

It has already been preprogrammed and bought

The enslavers are ultimately ourselves

We who do not exercise our inalienable rights

We let culture and tradition program rather than suggest

Then the human mind has no might

To be willing to die for freedom is the price

And few are willing to pay that price

We march off to war for another man's cause

Without deep investigation if that war is right

Do not allow the "boob tube" to tell you what to think

Search out truth and beauty for she must be sought 

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I am a hippy that never dropped out. I have held on to impossible idealism and will not give up. I think the human race is a ticking time bomb and we are at the last tick. So what is the good of slow careful pragmatism that allows time for it all to (more...)
 
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