Decortication Nation

 

CORTEXES

 While the election is still hanging in the balance, I thought I'd post a song in honor of it. It's a song about how horrible it is to live in America right now. Most people are all poor and struggling and can barely afford rent (and lots can't even do that). That's exactly where the powers-that-be want us. We're so poor and always worried about how to survive, that we cain't use our brains for anything other than worrying about trying to survive. It's as if we've all had our cortexes removed!!!! It's fucked up.

Our cortexes are the parts of our brains that allow us to do higher level thinking. They allow us to organize and plan and get things done. But, in this constant fear state that we're always in, we ain't usin' our cortexes to do that kind of thing. We're in the limbic brain, the emotion part of the brain, always constantly scared and worrying and in survival mode.

In short, it makes us stupid. It's the dumbing down of America. We ain't usin' the parts of the brain that would allow us to think through things and generate ideas that would create positive change in this country.

And that's EXACTLY where the powers-that-be want us to be. They don't want anything to change, cuz that might mean they'd lose power. Just keep us poor and afraid all the rest of our days; we won't make any changes cuz we'll be too worried about bein' able to pay rent or bills or taxes and stuff.

It's as if all of our cortexes have been removed, cuz we ain't usin' 'em. We are the Decortication Nation!!!

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CORTXRAP

Post-script: Here's  a slowed-down version the rap; I did it just now so there'll be a version of it with easier-to-understand lyrics. I changed one lyric - from "no political factions" to "those political factions."

The lyrics are:
Our brains were made to think straight and clear
But now we ain't got time cuz we're in fear
Anxiety has killed our cortex
Powers that be made sure we're more stressed

Decotication Nation

Our basic needs are not met; that means
We think survival and not deep things
We can't rebel – with breaking backs, this
Country is hell; we can't afford taxes

Decortication nation

You can not remember how
To think like a person now
Every brain cell has been spent
Figuring out how to pay rent

The cortex is part of the human brain
It's important cuz it helps us to attain
Logical thinking that gets good things done
But our ship's sinking; we can only run
It's as if our cortexes have been killed
Anxiety vortexes take our will
With blinding worry about paying rent
Our minds are blurry and our brains are spent
We can't afford to pay our taxes, and it's breaking our backs, in a hopeless ignorance
Now our cortexes have been hacked, and our credit cards are maxed out, we have just seven cents
Distractions are causing our inaction, so we can't make impacts on no political factions
Simulated cortex removal has congress's approval this anxiety's brutal

No one can get their shit together
To fix these things and make them better
Our constant worry makes our brains dumb
We're in a hurry to get away from

Decortication Nation

Here's that other player thingy, just in case the one up top is incompatible with your portable electronic device:

Here's the alternative player-thingy for the slowed down rap. Poopy-poopy-ones.