The Vast Machine

Based on the great novel ‘The Traveller’ by John Twelve Hawkes (part 1 of a trilogy by the way).This one deals with the lack of privacy in our current society. Read the book and you’ll get what I’ll mean. Below lyrics are a summary of the overal situation. Think about it when you are filmed or fotographed for the 89 h time during your day off in London or Paris or ...

In our cybersociety
of pervasive electronics,
overwhelmed by streams of factual statistics

Being watched and monitored,
seems to be the widely accepted way
under false prediction of providing protection

Immersed in this guarding atmosphere,
we are forced to accept
privacy intrusion as the price for protection.

Some tools designed for our daily distraction,
capture every move we tend to make
widely supported by an artificial cult of fear

What's the price we want to pay
to live our life our own way
to live aside the massive haze
of the ever growing Vast Machine

What's the price we want to pay
to live our life our own way
to live aside the massive haze
of the ever growing Vast Machine