The Outrage Machine
Verse 1
There's a glowing little altar in the palm of your hand
Pumping a steady poison right across the land
It ain't a crystal ball, it's a carnival mirror
Built by the boys who are selling the fear
Every time you scroll, they're tightening the line
Dripping a little more venom in the wine
Chorus
So welcome to the outrage machine
The finest little grinder that you've ever seen
It takes your righteous anger and it turns it to gold
Keeps you locked in the cage while the tickets are sold
They don't care who is wrong, they don't care who is right
As long as everybody keeps bleeding in the fight
Verse 2
You hate your neighbor and he hates you back
Cause the feed only shows you the coming attack
It’s a feedback loop in a silicon brain
Harvesting the clicks like they're harvesting the grain
We’re shouting in the dark at a digital ghost
While the men in the servers are raising a toast
Bridge
It’s just an algorithm, cold and precise
Trading our peace at a terrible price
We ain't the consumers, we're the coal in the fire
Burning ourselves on a digital wire
Yeah, the metrics go up when the empathy dies
We're drowning in a river of perfectly optimized lies
Chorus
Welcome to the outrage machine
The finest little grinder that you've ever seen
It takes your righteous anger and it turns it to gold
Keeps you locked in the cage while the tickets are sold
They don't care who is wrong, they don't care who is right
As long as everybody keeps bleeding in the fight
Outro
Power it down.
Pull the plug.
Starve the beast.
Let the screen go black.