Dystopia
Now and Forever
[Intro: Eckhart Tolle]
You will not have any doubt that psychological time is a mental disease if you look at its collective manifestations. They occur, for example, in the form of ideologies such as communism, national socialism or any nationalism, or rigid religious belief systems, which operate under the implicit assumption that the highest good lies in the future and that therefore the end justifies the means. The end is an idea, a point in the mind-projected future, when salvation in whatever form - happiness, fulfillment, equality, liberation, and so on - will be attained. Not infrequently, the means of getting there are the enslavement, torture, and murder of people in the present. For example, it is estimated that as many as 50 million people were murdered to further the cause of communism, to bring about a "better world" in Russia, China, and other countries. This is a chilling example of how belief in a future heaven creates a present hell. Can there be any doubt that psychological time is a serious and dangerous mental illness? How does this mind pattern operate in your life? Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are? Is most of your doing just a means to an end? Is fulfillment always just around the corner or confined to short-lived pleasures, such as sex, food, drink, drugs, or thrills and excitement? Are you always focused on becoming, achieving, and attaining, or alternatively chasing some new thrill or pleasure? Do you believe that if you acquire more things you will become more fulfilled, good enough, or psychologically complete? Are you waiting for a man or woman to give meaning to your life?…
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry, all forms of fear, are caused by too much future and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, greed, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness is caused by too much past and not enough presence. You may win 10 million dollars, but that kind of change is no more than skin deep. You would simply continue to act out the same condition patterns in more luxurious surroundings. Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing 10 or 20 people with a gilded club, one person can now kill millions with the push of a button
Is that real change?

[Verse 1: Dino]
Take a long look at the past to unlock a greater future
Sift through the wreckage of failures
In the hope to make things better
Like more efficient ways to kill
In the name of human progress
How to control and crush the will
So that no one dares to question

[Hook: Dino]
So what of the past
And this "so called" better future?
If past and future don't exist
Then where does that leave us?
Lost in a quagmire of lies
Built upon the lies of before
Echoing endless through time
These legends of false perception

[Bridge: Dino]
Identities lie
Based on ego and habit
Beliefs kill
Why are these institutions sacred?
[Hook: Dino]
So what of the past
And this "so called" better future?
If past and future don't exist
Where the fuck does that leave us?
To bathe in the excrement of old
And back in the "glory" of what is to be
I hang my head in sorrow
Because the now is too disgusting to see

[Chorus: Dino & Mauz]
The past does not exist (Only the now remains)
The future is a myth (Only the now remains)
The past does not exist (Only the now remains)
The future is a myth (Only the now remains)

[Verse 3: Dino]
Genocide was someone's now
A tool to make things better
Once a madman's torture
A vision that has ended
Atrocities are mimicked
Carried forth to this day
Only names and faces have been changed
But the now still stays the same
[Chorus: Dino & Mauz]
The past does not exist (Only the now remains)
The future is a myth (Only the now remains)
The past does not exist (Only the now remains)
The future is a myth (Only the now remains)