Lyrics Regression Through Unlearning - The Modern Age Slavery

Regression Through Unlearning

Your craving of perfection\nAs absolution of the emptiness of evolution:\nA knowledge built out of nothing\nNo science, no proficiency\nTo guide a mass of bodies with no awareness\n'Cause all your world’s improvement\nIs yourself’s regression\nEvery time machines replace hand work, human dexterity gets befuddled:\nbecause hands were trained for a technical skill, based on a specific\nnecessity; and they have lost that ability since devices, in which our\ncleverness has frozen forever, made them become useless. So nowadays\nblacksmiths, who once knew how to transform an iron block into any kind of\nthing using fire, hammer and chisel, have become incapable. And today they just\nknow how to adapt and combine with screws pieces already made by factories and\nfoundries. They don’t even make by themselves keys or nails: that’s why it’s\nalso hard to find someone able to shoe a horse; and same goes for sculptors,\ncarpenters and tailors… On the contrary, masses of sad and stupid factories\nworkers, who just know how to do a single move, has taken their place