Stuporman
F. Rzewski
A specter is haunting the world,
a ghost of something once alive, now become a curse.
Capitalism: a system that should have died a hundred years ago,
but which is able to keep itself alive with the debraining machine.
The debraining machine! The great leveller! Which turns us all into stuporman!
Yes, even you can be stuporman! And you! And you! And you!
All of us, plugged in together, in step, gleichgeschaltet,
heading for zombieland!
Stumpfsinn, Stumpfsinn, du mein Vergnügen,
Stumpfsinn, Stumpfsinn, du mein Lust!
Please, Lord, let me not become a robot.
Let me at last become a Mensch.