be afraid, be very afraid
So the debate goes like this We had the scaremongers about the industrial revolution But we got through that didn’t we!? So this hollowing out of the middle class Is nothing to worry about We’ll all still have things to do When the jobs of educators are digitally outsourced Drones can drone and clones can clone That’s how the argument goes Holy shitting fuck We are still stuck on the riff that we are complex machines Mechanisms – cause and effect The A grade students The quiet reasonably hard working ones Who are good at the secretarial skills Get bumped up the ladder Then we go Ooh oh noo look people are alienated and doing very bad things Better do a survey Better collate data Then process the data and carry on believing in the plan We’ll all still have things to do When life is a series of abstract decimalised codes The cynics can still find time to guffaw At believers in the inef...