A Failure of Perception Lyrics

Modern life has been creeping

Into a form of abstraction

An inability to distinguish reality

From a simulation of reality

The radical illusion we are slipping into

Is our failure of perception

The management of illusion is now

The greatest industry of modern society

The paradox is the gameplay

We have a perception distortion

Mass society adhering to a collective delusion

A flight away from reality

The hyperreal is contagious

Like a respiratory virus

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold

Life is mediated more through social media

Than through human bonds

The reprogramming of human life

An increasing failure of perception

Bringing in a new order of chaos

A technological order is attempting to assert itself

Against a rising fragmentation of life

False information, pseudo-truths

The lack of the social mind to make critical distinction

Organization dominates in the world of the machine

Civil war is looming as a secular trend

A rootlessness of uncertainty is

Mixed with desperate tech-salvation

The human psyche is being 'de-branded'

So that it can be 're-branded'

Memory is subject to constant rewriting

A global mind change through reprogramming of the collective

If you want to belong

You have to agree to the program

A global halt has been applied

The 'new program' is dutifully supplied

We have a perception distortion

Mass society adhering to a collective delusion

A flight away from reality

The hyperreal is contagious

Like a respiratory virus

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold