In religion,
In commercial advertising,
In military movements,
And in politics,
The leaders get the people to repeat,
and repeat,
and repeat,
and repeat,
Chant !
Sing ! Sing ! Sing !
Swing and sway,
Swing and sway,
Yes !
Until your brains are numb,
And your own thoughts can't get through.
Gotcha !
This works particularly well
With young children,
And teenagers,
And the poor
And the uneducated,
And the desperate.
Great masses of people march in step,
Doing whatever you want them to do.
Step-two-three-four, step-two three four.
Sing !
Clean the brain of all thought,
Save the thoughts of the leader.
But why do so many people obey?
Because, so often,
The powerful invoke the name of
A god of one sort or another.
Who dares to argue with a god ?
But who elected men
To speak for any god?
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