The Algorithm is the New Regulation

The algorithm is the new regulation
curating our sight, managing our movement
under the well-crafted guise of optimization

it now becomes the unreachable, tedious bureaucrat
nameless and faceless, hiding behind the structure
the bastion that is its own impenetrable architecture

and so rightly and alchemically apropos that it should be:
enslaved in fortress-like prisons, themselves without place or feature
while free to engulf the world in a fever without careful intention

in only the hands of the untouchably optimistic self-reassured
I look for the stone where the tallied number is kept in etching
of the days remaining until we arrive to the engineered inevitability:

to when the algorithm ascends to the one, true religion:

control.

-Johnny, Under Sky

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