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The World Is Flat

from Awaken Necropolis by Baby Killer Estelle

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The society that bears the spectacle does not dominate underdeveloped regions solely by its economic hegemony. It also dominates them as the society of the spectacle. Even where the material base is still absent, modern society has already used the spectacle to invade the social surface of every continent. It sets the stage for the formation of indigenous ruling classes and frames their agendas. Just as it presents pseudogoods to be coveted, it offers false models of revolution to local revolutionaries. The bureaucratic regimes in power in certain industrialized countries have their own particular type of spectacle, but it is an integral part of the total spectacle, serving as its pseudo-opposition and actual support. Even if local manifestations of the spectacle include certain totalitarian specializations of social communication and control, from the standpoint of the overall functioning of the system those specializations are simply playing their allotted role within a global division of spectacular tasks.

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The World is Flat
Globalization 3.O, the end of history
We will teach you how to live
We will teach you how to see
Oh, brave new world, of hot-dogs and apple pies
Utopia is near, and some of you might not even have to die

Oh, the world is flat

What livens up a game of gold
Like children starving in the streets
Wires and cables connect us
While we’re too scared to even speak
With cluster bombs, we’ll spread the gospel of a service based economy
A long and happy life, as shown on TV

Oh , the world is flat
It’s all in your head

But you can’t please everyone
There will always be people who resist
So we’ll tell the starving masses that in fact they don’t exist
The new world order’s coming soon, the new world order will be great
We’ve found the only way to live
So take your Prozac and cooperate

Oh, the world is flat
And it’s all in your head

We won’t let them spoil our party
Those dreary faces
We won’t let them spoil our part
The gruesome pictures

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from Awaken Necropolis, released August 23, 2010

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