DISPATCH I – souls in the bottleneck:
how our avatars of ego flicker and dance like flames
that elegant dance between who we really are and the profile presented on a screen
our human lives flow and change
while social media profiles stay the same
lagging a few seconds, hours, days behind
until we reach back in time
to update our profiles to now
but now
is already gone
our human lives being sliced up into tribes by the data knives
of self-as-center algorithms
whirring and smoking in the trembling hands
of me-and-nothing-else leaders
in the context of
e v e r y t h i n g and e v e r y o n e
else
enter your information into the text box
do it now, enter it
can’t you see, it’s empty
trouble is, we’ll never get high enough
never get rich enough to find peace
in the self-as-center algorithms
washing over us
how the jealousy rage in the selfie cage
chase the fame right into that frame
like we chained
to the stables in a sweltering server farm
so busy performing life to notice what living it really feels like
that hi def sound of shell casings raining down in a video game town
so we can’t hear what 25 sirens racing by in the night really sounds like
enter your life into the selfie cage
do it now, enter it
can’t you see, it’s empty
trouble is, we’ll never be high enough
never be rich enough to find peace
in the self-as-center algorithms
washing over us
our human lives flow and change
while social media profiles stay the same
lagging a few seconds, hours, days behind
until we reach back in time
to update our profiles to now
but now
is already gone
heat flow 