They Called it an Equation

What if you life could be plugged into a simple equation? Would life lose all the mystery and excitement?

 

They Called it an Equation

It was an equation

One that was never to be solved

They, and by they I mean those powers that be, the one percent the bourgeoisie

Whatever label seems to stick

Call it the million dollar problem

Knowing full well it would never be solved

They poured money from rich donors, entire countries

Sent in the people with all the right titles

Even some who didn’t and never reached any closer to the answer

They wanted it in some nice neat little series of numbers and letters

They could have kids memorizing as early as kindergarten

Plug yourself in and you knew

Exactly who you would fall in love with

How much money you would make

And of course where you would go when you died

Einstein spent years on this

The Bible summed it up in far too many pages

Plato said don’t bother

But they did

They struggled, cursed, spent countless hours in the lab

Until you became a single number

 

The high numbers would go to college

Receive all the praise from the time they were conceived

While the lower ones would make up the bottom of the pyramid

The part easiest to ignore

Knowing your number from birth

Would eliminate so much time

Figuring out silly notions that don’t really matter

Such as who you are

Or worry about finding love

No need to fight for your position

Its handed to you on a silver platter

Or it hits you from behind, forcing you face down into the dirt

                                  

Those were the voices, or single voice if that makes it easier to think about

 What with that notion of big brother and all

They said trust us we know best

We want it all to be easier

They called it an equation, promising hope and freedom

Freedom from choice, freedom from decisions, freedom from free will

The freedom to be whoever you wanted

As long as they picked it out for you

 

 

 

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