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Observe

Supervise

Survey

No liberty for the masses

Pursue

Control

Monitor

My function was to find out

New system to protect humans

To bring more security

I was the engineer

For a new era of surveillance

In times of egomania and hypocrisy,

All the world seemed to be corrupt,

Conniving and dangerous

The menace was in every corner

People didn’t know who to trust,

What to think

Or whom to follow

The gap between the rich and the poor

Grew bigger

A two class society was born

The rich became victims of their own greed

While the poor fought for their existence

As long as people live in fear,

They’re manipulative

So the affluent ones

Tried to stoke the fears of the weak

To enact new laws

These laws should bring more safety

But they just made the public

More glassy

The government wanted

To be omnipresent

I developed techniques

For their ideas

Now could follow every footstep

With their interception-machine

When times became harder

A new breed of surgents

Started their rebellion

Against the observation regime

Most of them were put away

Before they could cause substantial changes

A minor treatment

By taking material about these riots out

Of context

And by broadcasting it,

The regnancy wanted to seed more anxiety

Panic

Hysteria

Ready for anything

The public allowed

New ‘safety measures’

I had always been the tool

To fulfill their plans

But now my employers

Wanted me to leave

Driven by their persecution complex

They realized that

Even I became a risk

I knew too much about their monitoring system

After years of supervising

I understood what I did

The total violation of privacy

I misused the fears of the infirm

To quiet the paranoia of the strong

I was trapped in this world

That I generated

No longer free to do what I want

It was impossible to stop this progress

Those things which were thoughts

Can never be unthought

An evolution backwards

The downward spiral