junk yard quote 2 week 1

"involuntary nervous system"
For my brain and culture psychology class we learned about the brain of course and how some of it runs on its own automatically. I thought this was interesting until I typed in the word automatic in a thesaurus and saw that "robotically" had come up and then I got kind of weirded out. I began to ask myself how much control do I really have over what I do? Are we so advanced as humans that we are secretly robots? Is that why we always make movies about robots or aliens taking over because we secretly have a fear of us destroying our own automatic selves? The paranoia started to increase and I thought of the muse song uprising. "they will not force us, they will stop degraaaaading us!" Who the hell is they anyway? It's us I think and "we will be victorious" against each other? How is that going to happen? I guess by unifying us and them like the song says.I just thought this was interesting because we always say them and they and assume that everyone knows who that is. Maybe it is a part of ourselves that we don't like so we say "oh it's them" with an upturned nose. We should either accept the part of ourselves that we don't like or rise against. I love Muse

"Uprising" by Matthew Bellamy










Paranoia is in bloom,
The PR, transmissions will resume
They'll try to, push drugs that keep us all dumbed down
And hope that, we will never see the truth around
(So come on)

Another promise, another seed
Another, packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed
And all the, green belts wrapped around our minds
And endless red tape to keep the truth confined
(So come on)

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
So come on

Interchanging mind control
Come let the, revolution takes its toll
If you could, flick the switch and open your third eye
You'd see that, we should never be afraid to die
(So come on)

Rise up and take the power back
It's time the, fat cats had a heart attack
You know that, their time's coming to an end
We have to, unify and watch our flag ascend
(So come on)

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
So come on

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey