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21st century slavery

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 It is a known fact that slavery existing beyond physical bondage. Intellectual slavery, freedom of choice, financial slavery, all these are just examples of other ways a person could be held bondage and freedom taking away. What is interesting is that a lot of people are actually slaves and don't realise it. Slaves to their lifestyle, slaves to the media, slaves to their financial institutions, slaves to their bosses or jobs, and the list goes on... the greatest achievement of slavery in the 21st century is to intelligently mask itself such that the slave celebrates the 'privilege' to be a slave rather than fight it!

Rolling over, bending over, turning over, pulling all over again
roadside, bedside, flipside, upside, downside the same
I'm living in a fragmented world, holding on to little the same
Sub this, sub that, sub what? subcultures messing with me

I know I can have what I want to have
And I know I can be what i want to be
If I live past this hour of greed
If I am what I am in my head


Rat race, 5 Cs, upward mobile it's all the same
Slavery, Bondage, mortgage, credit cards, they're all the same
we're living in a dictatorship, where the banks control our lives
Discounts, rebates, rewards, redemption fading away

I know I can have what I want to have
And I know I can be what i want to be
If I live past this hour of greed
If I am what I am in my head


This is not what I want, cos i know what I want
This is not what i need, cos i know what i need
This is not who i am, cos i know who i am
This is not how i thought it would be

This is life in the past, with the roles interchanged
This is madness again, different name, different face
This is selfish and greedy, ruling and leading
Caged all our choices and freedom

I know I can have what I want to have
And I know I can be what i want to be
If I live past this hour of greed
If I am what I am in my head

(c) 2007 Dehumo


Dehumo
Written on Sunday, 01 November 2009 09:16 by Dehumo

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