Intro (Welcome Back, Golden Boy.)
We have to create culture
Don't watch TV
Don't read magazines
Don't even listen to NPR
Create your own road show
The nexus of space and time, where you are now
Is the most immediate sector of your universe
And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else
Then you're giving power, you're giving it all away to icons
Icons which are maintained by an electronic media
So that you want to dress like X, or have lips like Y
Or some, this shit frame this kind
That is all cultural diversion
And what is real is you and your friends and your associations
Your highs, your hopes, your plans, your fears
And we're told, "No, we're unimportant, we're peripheral"
"Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that, and then you're a player"
You don't even want to play in that game
You want to reclaim your mind
And get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers
Don't watch TV
Don't read magazines
Don't even listen to NPR
Create your own road show
The nexus of space and time, where you are now
Is the most immediate sector of your universe
And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else
Then you're giving power, you're giving it all away to icons
Icons which are maintained by an electronic media
So that you want to dress like X, or have lips like Y
Or some, this shit frame this kind
That is all cultural diversion
And what is real is you and your friends and your associations
Your highs, your hopes, your plans, your fears
And we're told, "No, we're unimportant, we're peripheral"
"Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that, and then you're a player"
You don't even want to play in that game
You want to reclaim your mind
And get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers
Credits
Writer(s): Levi Zadoff
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