When the Clock Stops

from Howl of Dynamite by Storm of Sedition

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Monotonous dreary schedulized routines
The clock rules over us
Managing and arranging our lives
To serve the roles that reproduce
The industrial machine
With maximum efficiency
A giant clock looms over the world
The ultimate homogenized, universalized,
Globalized form of control
Necessary for efficient machine society
The clock is always ticking

The industrial system's technology
Integrates techniques, machinery, people, and resources
Extending the ruling order's power
Time training is a civilizing process
To create domesticated subservient citizens
Why does this illusion have so much power over us?
Time is the ultimate model of domination
Our lives and bodies are synchronized to it
A component in the vast landscape of reifications
That seemingly steer and control our lives

Work, school, institutionalized misery
Day to day mundane alienation
Reject, negate, and attack these conditions

We internalize this construct
That forces us into servility
Time is nothing but a construct
Colonizing our subjectivity
Quantifying how we experience life
When the clock stops life begins

The industrial revolution
Birthed time in its most predatory form yet
It regulated social behavior
Kept people in the factories
It was an instrument used to organize and control
The parallel between the accuracy of time
And the level of industrialization was clear
It was a symbol of order and discipline
That created regimentation, regulation, and routinization
And as a direct response people revolted
Against industrialization
They shot at clock towers in the streets

Abandon the clock
Reject the civilizing
Process of internalizing time
When we take our lives into our own hands
and live them on our own terms
We can enter a state of timelessness and presentness
With all the “time” in the world to play, revolt, and destroy

When the clock stops, life begins

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from Howl of Dynamite, released June 25, 2019

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