Album Name : Spoils of Failure
Release Date : 2009-03-03
Song Duration : 11:27
Buried Inside Iii
In the given process, sabotage is a necessary resolve -
a determined line of defence.
In the given context, obstruction is a necessary
control - a vested right to exclusion.
Sanctioned, stamped and filed on the hallowed grounds
of fiscal security: the front line which fortunes all
depend.
From the courtiers in the halls of Versailles,
To the grab-mongers who warmed the seats in Uruguay,
The message is clear: these promises will never
eventuate.
Armed with trace-chain and pack-saddle on a roughshod
crusade to capture,
To enclose, to clog arteries and fill silos,
Because the last frame broken is the first scrap
claimed.
Scarcity is woven into law. Values frozen into code.
We are delivered, reduced to the sum of all variables,
aggregated, correlated and collapsed as so much data.
Sorted as targets and prospects through the means and
metaphors of war: by design, by disinvestement, by
self-eviction - a quiet withdrawal.
Marked and managed with GIS precision.
Take the knight, leave the pawn.
Geodemographic solutions for predictive indexing.
Bold jargon, kind euphemism for the consigned spaces to
live out our days.
Running our heads against walls of words, against
apologists for hype, against regimes without borders,
and the rest follows from it.
Manoeuvres of restriction, delay, and hindrance have a
large share in the ordinary conduct of business.
[Thorstein Veblen, The Engineers and the Pricing
System]
In the given process, sabotage is a necessary resolve -
a determined line of defence.
In the given context, obstruction is a necessary
control - a vested right to exclusion.
Sanctioned, stamped and filed on the hallowed grounds
of fiscal security: the front line which fortunes all
depend.