Some of my otherwise brilliant and productive friends Take final refuge in Character assassinations They ignore the issue and deny the relation between Our consumption and brutality So you can go ahead and roll your eyes and marginalize me Play on my insecurities And you can feign ignorance But you’re not stupid, you’re just selfish And you’re a slave to your impulse And I kinda thought we all shared common threads In that we gravitated here to challenge the conventions we’ve been fed By cultures that treat creatures like machines And if you buy that shit then how long till it’s me Who serves as your commodity? Through institutionalized violence and oppression of workers And women raped by sexism Do you still insist on feigning indignance to reason? To collective self-interest? I’ll call you on your shit, please call me on mine Then we can grow together and make this shit-hole planet better in time Consider someone else