Sliding past the corner cafes on sleigh bells
Filling lungs with smoke as a means to feel well
This anomie
All that’s surrounding me
Watching observing life
As it goes by without me
Silently hoping my time will come

What’s anomie?
Is it describing me?
Why does my life feel like a simulation?
‘cause what I am
And who I want to be
Are dissonant
Incongruent

"Noam Chomsky: "...uh, he said one of the major achievements is that to have created, in his words, "greater worker insecurity." And that's supposed to be good because if you have worker insecurity, working people don’t ask for wages or rights, benefits, and so on. You have what economists call a more flexible labor force, meaning they don't cut into profits or manage a real prerogative. People are getting by. But by having two members of the family, two adults working, which is difficult, it means children are alone
[...] The parents can put food on the table if they both work
[...] But what's happened in general is the general consciousness has changed [...] Women's rights, environmental concerns, gay rights, civil rights for blacks [...]" (From 2010 interview with Christopher Lydon, http://radioopensource.org/noam-chomsky-the-bright-side-of-the-american-socrates/)."


I’m just a girl
In a postmodern world
And I am not a very good student
But what I’ve learned
Will follow me around
Like collective effervescence


"Noam Chomsky: "If you come out of college with a big debt and you're pretty much controlled." (From 2010 interview with Christopher Lydon, http://radioopensource.org/noam-chomsky-the-bright-side-of-the-american-socrates/)."