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whose dream

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it's not so hard
somewhere deep inside ourselves
we know everything we need to know
but we've been
	trained to forget
	conditioned not to listen
we hunger for deep reality
	but settle for weak facsimile
we aspire to courage
	but allow our fears to be manipulated
we want to be free
	but concede and compromise ourselves at every step
to feel safe.

we have everything we need to live in paradise
for everyone
but we're eating it all up
and crapping it all out
as fast as we can
	faster faster faster
		more more more
			hoard hoard hoard
		mine mine mine
	consume dispose consume
until it's all gone
while high-def flat screen phantoms
shiny electrodistractors
and cell phone brain parasites
eat our time and our minds and our lives.

we live and die in a group trance
a mass of mass dreams
in which someone else's dreams
are more real to us than our own
	whose dream is this
	whose dream do you serve
your conditioning is more than you realize.

stop
take a moment
take a breath
check your body
and ask yourself
	am I awake right now
or am I dreaming someone else's dream.

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