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The Meta Feelies (The Soft Captivity of Dystopian Entertainment)

by Buck AE Down

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One of the most defining qualities of any dystopia, either real or fictional, is that the prevailing entertainment is weird as fuck, and wholly immersive. It has to be or otherwise, the fact that you are living in a dystopia becomes a constant, inescapable reality. The Feelies in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" is a good example, and part of our namesake here.

Our current end-stage capitalism dystopia is no different, and for us, we have submerged ourselves wholly in a constant social media metaverse, where each of us is expected to produce and release our entire lives as a serialized movie, updated constantly for a captured audience of other obliged content creators. Meanwhile, faceless corporate entities have figured out a way to turn the entire process into a data mining operation that allows them to manipulate the show we all see, thus forming an endlessly recursive feedback loop that gets tighter and stranger with each new permutation.

What was once defined as the whims of distant gods, has now become the work of imaginary writers banging out our timeline, and often doing a hack job of it, or at least that's how a lot of us have been jokingly referring to it for the last 6 years or so when things started getting Really Weird.

Anywho - I wrote a song about it. Would you like to hear it? Here it goes.....

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LYRICS:

VERSE 1
Surrender yourself to entertainment
The matinee of our derangement
An escape so deep and relevant
That you’re never gonna get yourself out of it

CHORUS
You can always make the worst of a bad situation
As long as there’s still cameras to roll
And you can always just assume that its an open invitation
You can binge the dailies right off your phone

VERSE 2
Every moment is lost to the forgetting
Nothing is real but it’s all permitted
Running for cover as the babies boom
And god now works in a writer’s room

(Repeat chorus)

BRIDGE
You want a simple life
A minimum of compromise
A couple weeks off every year
From your human sacrifice
A life just good enough to sell the options and the rights
Captive to the freedom
To make movies out of all our lives

VERSE 3
The last hope of democracy
Is to wait out gerontocracy
But no one dies before they go
They just get written off the show

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released February 2, 2023
Written, Performed, Produced, and Mastered by:
BUCK AE DOWN

at Kuleana Soundworks Studios
Altadena, California
January 2023

© ℗ 2023 All the Way Down Music (ASCAP)

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Buck AE Down is an artist, writer and producer who lives in Los Angeles and who'd like to be friends with you, if that's cool.

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