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By imageofagirl

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i'll scream at the top of my lungs       as it echoes of the wall it lunges into your ears                         but you don't care                     with all of your power you let it flow right through you         it will disrupt you                     and you're to busy with your life to care about the truths                 and consequences           of living closed minded                             in your little suburban life     you pay 10 bucks for a meal at McDonalds             100 bucks for your tommy jeans           and 1000 bucks for your IBM corporate rule has consumed you and bled you dry                             "who cares" you say           "it's all the same                 there's nothing I can do anyways" answering back       with searing wit                 "      thank god they took the time and brought down hitler,           or what if they said it was too hard, and that he's a good man . would you be where you are today? "                   just don't let them decide what you see and hear make your own decisions                             do not be the follower of a hidden leader   who hides behind celebrities faces, and cooky cartoons               who pays millions to find out how you think,     and then makes thirty times that amount selling it back to you                       do not f  e  a    r                   the destruction of the modern day dictatorI am doing a sociological essay on an org. called adbusters, http://www.adbusters.org who try to show how corporations control what we see and what we do, and how must don't want to open their eyes. open yours Written March 4th, 2002 © on Mar 04 2002 01:38 PM PST, melissa upfold   0 • 9

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