[Toby] So anyway I'm doing good Mostly Limiting my time Mostly I turned on grayscale I guess I'm seeing a lot of grays Right now You know Just not a lot of blacks and whites And lefts and rights Right now You know Actually Actually Actually [Toby] One thing that's been on my mind Is intelligence And how people evolve And how I've evolved You know when I was a kid I was really punk rock Just burn it down man Capitalist pigs Homogenized sheep Sheep man Baa! Oh I needed that Oh that's so well put Oh how inspiring Exactly This, this Say it louder for the people in the back! Fucking consensus-driven monolithic fuckery Everyone blind to the conspiracies That dull our wits And numb and dumb us all Fools and marionettes Homogenized on a digital gazette Bloated surface hive noise Monologue all the girls and boys Fools and marionettes Homogenized on a digital gazette Bloated surface hive noise Monologue all the girls and boys [Toby] Welcome to the Echo! (Echo echo echo) Chamber! (Chamber chamber chamber) I-am-a-robot-please-tell-me-what-I-am-to-be-thinking It's just a matter of digging a little deeper Just a matter of getting underneath what's up in there You think you know anything? Seriously? Have you seen the code? No, no one sees the code We are not in control No it's all a fucking game Yeah it's all fucking rigged We don't get the figures We don't get the reports All we get are scraps man Blurred by the mass media opiate haze Post a screenshot Wake up, wake up 'Cause there are no coincidences Through the looking glass Focus Expand your thinking How do you distinguish between good and bad? Triangle has three sides Focus Focus Follow the crumbs [Toby] Let's go to work! [Karly and Paula] Humans are very bad at understanding randomness We believe x has to balance out y And if it doesn't then it's not random enough [Toby] Okay, sheep, critical thinking much? [Thread chorus 2 (velma and jessica)] Humans compulsively commit pattern recognition It takes actual effort to turn off this survival skill This is why confirmation bias is such a problem [Toby] Okay normies, try thinking outside the box? Since when is coming to a conclusion Without a shred of evidence Considered thinking outside the box? [Toby] Look I play a lot Probably more than anyone else in this thread? Wow, you see this shit? This is just what they want We're all sitting here fronting and flexing While they're out there raiding the fucking vaults! First they poisoned the water Then they poisoned the sky And now it's our minds And you gotta stay vigilant Everyone thinks they're so top tier No one sees the fragmentation in themselves But that's the plan That's the scam That's the game That's how they're fucking us Click click click on a credit card As you cream your pants and your cranium cracks Content overstimulation Dopamine desensitization Over and over and over and over again [Toby] I can you feel it? We're all getting stupider! 'Cause our brains are learning Like oh that's what I want! Let's do it again! And let's do it again Do it again Do it again And [Toby] Mental obesity Neuroplasticity This shit is real If you're too lazy to educate yourself That's on you The monks are lighting the flares But tell me where have all the punk kids gone? Through the looking glass Focus Be a virus of confidence Believe in your bones that we're riding the greatest timeline in existence What is the common denominator? Who controls the narrative? How do you capture a dangerous animal? Who is asleep? [Toby] No I'm awake I'm awake Fucking addicts Please [Karly and paula] Addiction is a physical and mental dependency on a particular substance and the inability to stop using without adverse effects [Toby] Yeah exactly you need a substance Kappa kappa kappa [Thread chorus 2 (velma and jessica)] Diagnosis can be difficult due to comorbidity [Toby] Click click [Karly and Paula] Comorbidity is the existence of additional diseases and disorders Co-existing with the primary [Toby] Ok so what's the primary [Velma and Jessica] Addiction Depression Anxiety Impulse control Attention deficiency Moral deficiency Schizophrenia Dysmorphia Dissociation [Toby] All sound good to me! [Karly and Paula] You do not turn it on and off There is no cure Shatter the binaries 'Cause and effect is a binary Therefore 'cause and effect is a myth [Toby] Novelty, fantasy, feedback, and ecstasy It is man, it's all fucking porn! An infinite selection Of bodies and fetishes Ketchups and relishes Positions and opinions Impossible divisions Never-ending suffering And irritating buffering [Velma and Jessica] Infinity is option-5 Reality and fantasy is a binary [Toby] Brain fog Mind waste Zingers and factoids and hate And this is [Toby and thread choruses] Pointless The online community is by definition pro-social and pro-technological Its very nature deflects any criticism of itself Not drenched in ironic insincere self-effacement [Toby] So fuck it! [Toby and chorus] Behold! This most twisted period of the pendulum! Knocking down norms Knocking down cathedrals [Toby] In a swirl of irony and lulz Refresh refresh refresh [Toby] Feed the addict! Refresh [Toby] Feed the monster! Transgression, chaos, and liberty! [Toby and chorus] These are my gods [Toby] Kek! Kek! [Toby] Kek! Kek! [Toby] Kek! Kek! Kek! Kek! [Toby] I am the magician! Why is this relevant? How is this connected? Where we go one we go all Believe and make a choice right now Focus Focus Light will repel darkness! Light will expose darkness! Light will reveal darkness! Light will defeat darkness! [Toby] So anyway yeah we are fucked No one feels anything Numbness reigns The numb king numkin Go to sleep Who cares Pet and swipe and feed the monster Everything's bullshit so you're a fucking idiot if you genuinely care about anything Right? It doesn't matter how well you craft your post The choir sings hollow amens from cozy café couches While the idiot worms wiggle and shit in the mud You know when I'm in the real world I can't even interface I just wanna scroll down, you know? Scroll down, scroll down, you know? Get to the fucking point I dissociate all the time Like I'm not completely here right now I feel very far away from myself right now And I don't trust myself anymore And I don't love Fuck it Nothing changes No one revolts unless they're hungry People only change because of trauma Or light rain