What is the assembly line efficient for? Does the assembly line produce a product, or does it produce line workers - dispirited people doing a pointless job, utterly alienated from both the product they produce and the alienated consumer of that product?
Whether painting smiles on a plastic piece of shit in the smog bowl of industrial china, or shuffling useless pieces of paper from one file to the next in a highrise office in brussels, more and more of the human race spends most of its waking hours 'on the line' - just another cog in the machine. But when we accept that we are a cog - a lifeless piece of machinery, to be used up, worn out and then discarded for a newer model - then we explicitly accept our own dehumanization, and we accept that some other bastard has the 'god-given right' to dehumanize us (and all those around us).
An interesting thought. and what happens in the minds of the cognified? What sort of eternal internal conflict simmers between the compliant dehumanized corporate drone mind, and that inextinguishable spark of autonomy harbored in even the most down-trodden slave - all teeth and claws and shining eyes waiting for the slave-mind to turn away a moment too long, too late.
When they dream of the barricades, do they wake in a cold sweat terrified their betters may learn of their deviant nightmares, or do they wake in laughter - dropping back into slumber in the afterglow of their insurrection to come?
