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A Gilded Age

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"... Indeed, the human race is beginning confusedly to understand at last that it is living in a new and unfamiliar universe. The new order was meant to be a buffer between man and nature. Unfortunately, it has evolved autonomously in such a way that man has lost all contact with his natural framework and has to do only with the organized technical intermediary which sustains relations both with the world of life and with the world of brute matter. Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology to find again the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years."
- from "The Technological Society" (1954), by Jacques Ellul

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A song of praise
for a gilded age
Golden wires send our sighs
drifting into space

Silver tongues,
plastic guns,
and crystalline displays
A modern cage
for a gilded age

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from A Gilded Age, released February 6, 2023

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Life Insular Quezon City, Philippines

I live on an island.
I make dreamy, vaguely nautical pop.

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