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and we can't understand it
based on anything that came before.

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It just does something out of the blue,
according to a probabilistic framework.

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But is that gonna help
with freedom?

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Should our freedom just be
a matter of probabilities,

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just some random swerving
in a chaotic system?

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That just seems like it's worse.
I'd rather be a gear...

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in a big deterministic,
physical machine...

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than just some
random swerving.

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So we can't just ignore
the problem.

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We have to find room in our
contemporary world view for persons,

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with all that that it entails;
not just bodies, but persons.

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And that means trying
to solve the problem of freedom,

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finding room for choice
and responsibility...

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and trying to understand
individuality.

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You can't fight city hall,
death and taxes.

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Don't talk about politics
or religion.

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This is all the equivalent
of enemy propaganda
rolling across the picket line.

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" Lay down, G.I.
Lay down, G.I."

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We saw it all through
the 20th Century.

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And now in the 21st Century,
it's time to stand up and realize...

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that we should not allow ourselves
to be crammed into this rat maze.

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We should not submit
to dehumanization.

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I don't know about you,
but I'm concerned with
what's happening in this world.

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I'm concerned
with the structure.

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I'm concerned with
the systems of control,

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those that control my life and those
that seek to control it even more!

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I want freedom!
That's what I want!

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And that's what
you should want!

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It's up to each and every one of us to
turn loose and just shovel the greed,

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the hatred, the envy and,
yes, the insecurities...

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because that is
the central mode of control--
make us feel pathetic, small...

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so we'll willingly give up our
sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny.

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We have got to realize that we're
being conditioned on a mass scale.

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Start challenging this
corporate slave state!

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The 21st Century is
gonna be a new century,

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not the century of slavery,
not the century of lies and
issues of no significance...

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and classism and statism and all
the rest of the modes of control!

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It's gonna be
the age of humankind...

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standing up for something
pure and something right!


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