"Fitter, happier, more productive" Our owners want us to chase self betterment not for our own sake, but for their interests. "Comfortable, nor drinking too much, regular exercise at the gym, three days a week." They disguise it, they say to do things for your convenience, but it's often an unobtainable goal you bend over backwards to reach. After all, they want so much so soon, this is a capitalist society, after all, everything's gotta be hand delivered in under thirty minutes. "Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries" While building a community anywhere you are is important, they only want synergy. Win-wins are more sociopathic in the industries. "A patient, better driver
A safer car, baby smiling in back seat" Again, they disguise things. You're only to be safe so you can work, and they don't really care if your baby is smiling or not, they just want it to grow up just good enough so it can work. "Sleeping well, no bad dreams. No paranoia" exposure to the evils of the world encourages critical thinking of where you are, and what they call paranoia is just fear of the leadership that stomps on us. "Careful to all animals, never washing spiders down the plughole" You should be taking your own advice. How many soldiers die for a nation's interests? How many people are sold down the river at their company because a boss miscalculated and they have to make layoffs? "Keep in contact with old friends, enjoy a drink now and then. Will frequently check credit at moral bank, hole in wall, favours for favours, fond but not in love, charity standing orders" You're not to get to acquainted with people, you're not supposed to do good things because you want to show how much you care about friends and family, you're only supposed to know them so that you can work better with them. You're only being nice because you want something or you feel obligated to. "No longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows, nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate. Nothing so childish" Our current disquietments with the government, culture, and the corporate world are demeaned, treated like a child's fear of monsters under the bed or in the closet, or that there's something in the dark. You're just being irrational, get to bed. "No chance of escape. Now self-employed. Concerned, but powerless" The little power you think you have is resting on unstable foundation. You're just biding your time, hoping tomorrow you'll still have agency over yourself. But hey, if the illusion's believable enough, maybe you'll buy into that power, not like they control your taxes and the prisons that hold you if you don't pay up. "An empowered and informed member of society, pragmatism not idealism" Don't daydream, that's too inspiring. Think inside the box unless society empowers you to not. "Will not cry in public" We don't want to deal with you and your thoughts and opinions. Settle yourself outside company time. "shot of baby strapped in backseat" in case you thought I was reaching with them not caring about your baby, all they want is that it's there. Never mind if it's frowning or smiling. "Like a cat tied to a stick that's driven into frozen winter shit, the ability to laugh at weakness" You know where you are, and there's no getting out. So you might as well just laugh at your vulnerability, crack a joke, have a laugh, before they take that too. "Calm, fitter, healthier and more productive. A pig in a cage on antibiotics" You become dependent. We sell you the medicine to save your life at exorbitant rates.
"Fitter, happier, more productive" Our owners want us to chase self betterment not for our own sake, but for their interests. "Comfortable, nor drinking too much, regular exercise at the gym, three days a week." They disguise it, they say to do things for your convenience, but it's often an unobtainable goal you bend over backwards to reach. After all, they want so much so soon, this is a capitalist society, after all, everything's gotta be hand delivered in under thirty minutes. "Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries" While building a community anywhere you are is important, they only want synergy. Win-wins are more sociopathic in the industries. "A patient, better driver A safer car, baby smiling in back seat" Again, they disguise things. You're only to be safe so you can work, and they don't really care if your baby is smiling or not, they just want it to grow up just good enough so it can work. "Sleeping well, no bad dreams. No paranoia" exposure to the evils of the world encourages critical thinking of where you are, and what they call paranoia is just fear of the leadership that stomps on us. "Careful to all animals, never washing spiders down the plughole" You should be taking your own advice. How many soldiers die for a nation's interests? How many people are sold down the river at their company because a boss miscalculated and they have to make layoffs? "Keep in contact with old friends, enjoy a drink now and then. Will frequently check credit at moral bank, hole in wall, favours for favours, fond but not in love, charity standing orders" You're not to get to acquainted with people, you're not supposed to do good things because you want to show how much you care about friends and family, you're only supposed to know them so that you can work better with them. You're only being nice because you want something or you feel obligated to. "No longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows, nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate. Nothing so childish" Our current disquietments with the government, culture, and the corporate world are demeaned, treated like a child's fear of monsters under the bed or in the closet, or that there's something in the dark. You're just being irrational, get to bed. "No chance of escape. Now self-employed. Concerned, but powerless" The little power you think you have is resting on unstable foundation. You're just biding your time, hoping tomorrow you'll still have agency over yourself. But hey, if the illusion's believable enough, maybe you'll buy into that power, not like they control your taxes and the prisons that hold you if you don't pay up. "An empowered and informed member of society, pragmatism not idealism" Don't daydream, that's too inspiring. Think inside the box unless society empowers you to not. "Will not cry in public" We don't want to deal with you and your thoughts and opinions. Settle yourself outside company time. "shot of baby strapped in backseat" in case you thought I was reaching with them not caring about your baby, all they want is that it's there. Never mind if it's frowning or smiling. "Like a cat tied to a stick that's driven into frozen winter shit, the ability to laugh at weakness" You know where you are, and there's no getting out. So you might as well just laugh at your vulnerability, crack a joke, have a laugh, before they take that too. "Calm, fitter, healthier and more productive. A pig in a cage on antibiotics" You become dependent. We sell you the medicine to save your life at exorbitant rates.