Imagined Futures

SILICON OVERLORDS Go ahead and Plug your head in Create your virtual memories Instead of the real thing Reality is such a blur Stuck on a loop of unconsciousness Hacked with notifications Commanded from a distance like drones God is in the code dictating it all Humans no more It's the grand algorithm They make us think we want that We never signed up for this shit It’s a fucking inception And we’re to rip our brains out And replace them with processors To serve the coder’s obsessions Commanded from a distance like drones God is in the code dictating it all Humans no more It's the grand algorithm That has figured it all out Meet your silicon overlords Happiness In between loading screens Projected into dreams Of virtual reality Welcome to the singularity Humans no more It's the grand algorithm That has figured it all out Meet your silicon overlords

ALPHA CENTAURI The next frontier so close we feel but so far to be visited by us shiny tristar system attracts with awe as it glistens exploring hearts now listen their call to adventure these minds can't ignore that there’s a place for us in our galactic neighbor our hopes and dreams are enabled we long for you humans activated to visit other worlds with brighter stars and more colorful planets binary sunsets and rises guide our hopeful spaceships into the goldilocks zones we search for warmth in the coldest and darkest cold we hear our call to adventure these minds can't ignore that there’s a place for us in our galactic neighbor our hopes dreams are enabled we long for you

ON AVOIDING APOCALYPSES A vast systemic machine With major cultural influences Self preserving mechanism Spitting out anything that challenges it A very strong normative force We need the source code of mind. The source of our tool making evolution And choice-making type dynamics Can we make sense of this Multipolar trap we're in It never seems to end Is there hope at all ​ A multi decision tree We can’t accept any of the branches Self-extinguishing escapism Upload to silicon or flee Mars Every path is fucking sci-fi In this dark road of rivalrous games With more and more potent warfare Externalizing every bit of harm Can we make sense of this Multipolar trap we're in It never seems to end Is there hope at all But can we change what winning feels like? Can we become wise enough To hold the fire (to hold the fire) To steer this human ship and thrive Can we make sense of this Multipolar trap we're in It never seems to end Is there hope at all Can we remember that Everything we get from this Dies with us in the end But eternal LIFE—remains. There's hope in that!!!

MAPS ARE NOT TERRITORIES Sometimes I dream of a world Where finding the answer to something has some friction Instant knowledge comes at a loss Most of it is meaningless The only thing really learned is how to type into a box Or speak into a device You don't learn the larger life lesson of the struggle, the embodiment A deeper type of knowing The maps are not the territories You can look at depictions of a mountain It will never be the same as climbing the real mountain The embodied knowledge is less and less while the information is more and more We don't even know what we know Everything is forgotten instantly we're never certain Always full of doubt We look it up, again, and again Slowly drifting into amnesia The maps are not the territories You can look at depictions of a mountain It will never be the same as climbing the real mountain Embrace the analogue Start living with the senses Love actively the part of The world that you can touch

RECTANGLES Notified to wake up The program is set in motion Extended phenotype runs the code Agency devoid of choice Rectangle demands to look Dopamine hit first thing Context switching routine begins Settling into addictive hooks Where do we come in? Can we ignore the demon calling Productivity and entertainment Have become one thing It's very crowded but no one is Physically around me Rectangles are not our friend They were supposed to bring us closer But they ended up pushing everyone and everything away Where do we come in? Can we ignore the demon calling Can the focus come back to break us from the algorithmic prison we're in Connect human to human Instead of zeroes to ones Let the hearts ascend to love To build a hopeful future for us Can do what is meaningful not what is expedient We have to reignite the soul That's been dimmed within our hearts Then the future can be bright for all

IMAGINED FUTURES As our job changed from saving the world, to doing palliative care, what would the difference look like? Our hope at this point is in the agency of realizing the time for cherished outcomes has passed It's time to set aside childish things So how do we build the future? We do it with people And Love We do it with people It's not about morality It's about connectivity, viability and anti fragility We are atomized, fractured, rash, hyper individualistic consumer zoo monkeys The future requires responsible, self reliant folks to make it up So reach the other and find the human in them It's time to override selfishness So how do we build the future? We do it with people And Love We do it with people Can we see each other's light? Without getting pushed away by seeing each other's shadow or fallibility Forget rising into consciousness And build relationships So how do we build the future? We do it with people and love We do it with people We're stuck And there's no way out Let's sing out war song Let's sing our love song

LOVE MUST SHOW UP Feeling sorrow for what we are leaving behind To those that follow Can they deal with it? Or will they even care? How many will show up? Will LOVE show up? How will they build the future? Will they talk or will they war? LOVE must show up LOVE must show up