Can you tell the difference between fiction and fact
Or is your thinking short circuit, a mimicry act?
Your inability to examine basic assumptions
Leads you to accept the most heinous instructions
You don't know how to think
A brief explanation that "seems to make sense"
Will end the research that you call "in depth"
Cheap edited film of a con man sneering
Is enough to lead you to adolescent jeering
You're being conned!
But the scientist bores - they drone on and on
Uncertainties convince you that they must be wrong
You don't know how to think
You learned two things too well while quite high in school -
To critique from ignorance and treat experts as fools
You readily cast aside centuries of study if
It confronts the program using your brain for putty
You don't know how to think
You're so deeply wedded to a political stance
It prevents you from processing most basic science
So lies claim your allegiance over long-proven facts
And you're being deceived by your favorite acts
You've been conned!
(full chorus)
Quite naturally you distrust - the government are liars
But you spend all your time hooked to high-prophet wires
While six high-tech giants rewrite your lobes
You focus your skepticism on sideshows and probes
You don't know how to think
You trust giant monopolies but call government a hoax
Never questioning the source of your favorite jokes
Never asking yourself "Who profits from this?"
While you're being sold, your own slogan would fit
