Greg Wycliffe - Planned Peril (poem)

00:00:00.120 Petrified people prefer cages, opposed to facing their planned peril.

00:00:06.280 The plight of pretty pundits and posh politicians proudly pontificating their pre-written talking points.

00:00:14.100 A plethora of powerful production lights pronounce the superiority complex of prestigious institutions,

00:00:21.880 expert opinions, popular celebrities. Promoting fear is in vogue.

00:00:26.360 Any disagreement is rogue. Is there valid criticism? No.

00:00:31.300 Science perverted. Language inverted. Statistics spun faster than top scientists who get their credibility murdered.

00:00:40.120 And every person who isn't yet paralyzed by this chaos must be converted.

00:00:46.000 The programming sharply penetrates once sound and peaceful minds, piercing and impregnating thoughts once pure.

00:00:53.380 Propaganda placates the perturbed, sedates the unsure.

00:00:58.420 The pondering of your prefrontal cortex pauses as it is poked and prodded with a deeply plunged Q-tip

00:01:05.740 from the public health, for your public health.

00:01:08.740 See, it's not about your health. It's about the public health.

00:01:13.620 Petrified people prefer invasive precautions, humiliating practices, and an end to their privacy altogether,

00:01:23.500 as opposed to facing the plague that is their planned peril.

00:01:28.920 Pinned employers painfully pivot as payments plummet from paper to PayPal.

00:01:35.080 A prime opportunity presents itself.

00:01:38.600 The monopolistic imperative is paved.

00:01:41.120 Phones ping, preciously persuading the populace to participate in petty preoccupations.

00:01:48.420 Gossip parties, watch parties, Wi-Fi passwords take priority to escape our now putrid existence.

00:01:56.960 Peasants perform, pitted against one another, pining for public approval pending the pyramid of social credit.

00:02:04.700 Get paid to pathologize rule breakers.

00:02:08.680 Prey on anyone that is brave enough to say no.

00:02:12.480 Curious enough to ask why.

00:02:14.900 Bold enough to say this doesn't make sense.

00:02:18.980 Petrified people prefer to campaign for their own enslavement,

00:02:24.000 opposed to facing the plague that is their planned peril.

00:02:28.240 The programming continues.

00:02:30.560 Nothing profound, nothing proven, and absolutely no nuance provided.

00:02:35.780 All under the false pretext of progress.

00:02:40.400 Everyone is positive.

00:02:42.120 Everywhere is unsafe.

00:02:44.220 And only once we prick every single person on the entire planet will everything be perfect.

00:02:50.620 Police punish persons who project any portrayal that pushes for personal preference.

00:02:58.040 The fatally empathetic, passive apathetics pathetically pass on peering at the smallest passage or paragraph

00:03:06.240 that makes up a little part or piece of a patriotic principle.

00:03:11.460 The very path that gave us any freedom or any aspect of this quality of life to begin with.

00:03:18.140 But I suppose, what's the point?

00:03:23.360 Netflix is on.

Greg Wycliffe - January 09, 2021