Coat news with narratives
Call the stories facts
Get the data in
See how the masses react
Trim the tale to fit needs
Until the lie is intact
Gene G. McLaughlin 2016
Tag: Data
Highways and Byways
Domain of the tollgate not password
Modern struggle now internalized
Pistons and smoke were once preferred
Terrains of the world once externalized
Progress now deterred?
Not as things once existed
Design of things have altered
Highways of data and gas twisted
Course to destruction faltered?
Why has this foreboding persisted?
Gene G. McLaughlin 2004
The Random Provides Information
The random provides information
The information provides facts
The facts provide observations
Of how the random reacts
Gene G.McLaughlin 2013
The Tech Will Not Be Denied
The tech will not be denied
It keeps its own pace and company
You can hear it in the past
The sound von Neumann heard
In the back of his mind
The hum Turing felt
At the base of his spine
The spark the chimp saw
Pounding walnuts between stones
The ones and twos of it
The spiderwebs of it
We stride next to it
Because we are of it
We tell stories
To mask the data
Narratives to help
Ease through our days
Those who face the light of it
Move us forward
To something different
That is still yet us
The tech will not be denied
It moves without consent because it is us
We are its company and its raison d’etre
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
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