You talk of freedom The chains unseen stay veiled Your life is a diagram Not solid nor real All your decisions Are plotted and stored All your opinions Form Bayesian fields The ghosts in machinery Turns out to be us all We feed algorithms As grist for the mill Hopes and your worries Just functional inputs All just to sell you Some crap you don't need Transhuman billionaires Are parasites on all They claim absolution From consequence born Life synthesized Is a mechanist hell Compartmentalized In straightjackets we dwell Some German Fudge Is all we need Some German Fudge To feed the greed Hearts spied Dreams belied Laughs graded Angst shaded Feet to the fire Entrainment rolling in The face of your saviour Has nothing within False simulacra Dispensing nonsense Feigned understanding Sparks prejudice Are we all destined To be silicon myths? Tales told round the fire To frighten the chids Gather round robots I'll tell you a tale Of things once called humans Who gave us this world