Higher Learning: Chapter 2

By John...Dough (Beems)

On Pandora’s [BOOM]Box

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[Intro clip from "Schoolhouse Rock"]

With no more kiiings

We're going to elect a president!

No more kiiings

He's going to do what the people want!

No more kiiings

We're going to run things our way!

No more kiiings

Nobody's going to tell us what to do!

Rockin' and a-rollin', splishin' and a-splashin'

Over the horizon what can it be?

Looks like it's going to be, a free country...


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All around me I see pain and suffering

Feel like I'm bout to go insane im struggling

Paranoid, scared of every noise

Sometimes it's to the point that I can't function..

But I will not concede defeat

Because I recognize that this life's bigger than me...

7 billion minds waiting to be set free

Propoganda is a hell of a disease..

First thing to remember is it's all about the weapons

War is profit they want you to feel perpetually threatened

So they pick a foreign nation and invade on false pretenses

While manufacturing fear to justify the aggression

Second thing to remember is follow the cash flow

Every US intervention is centered 'round black gold

We went to Libya with a massive attack force

But Rwanda hardly got a fuckin' US task force

Third thing to remember everyone's got an agenda

Dick Cheney went from CEO to Vice Presidential

Then initialed the war plans for Afghanistan and Iraq

Then gave old company all the reconstruction contracts

Its time to face the facts no matter what pain they engender

Our country's run by wealthy men with rather quick tempers

Profiteering persecutors posing as freedom defenders

While they silence all dissenters, that’s the fourth thing to remember


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Fifth thing to remember is politics is a movie

Politicians are actors big business does the producin'

Lobbyists be directing how the actors vote and do shit

The media handles marketing and the box office is boomin'

Sixth thing to remember they want you to play the fool

Because they know that ign'ant folk is easier to rule

Without critical thinking you can't determine the truth

So they dumb down the curriculum and cut funding to the schools

Making rules that subjugate all creative thought and form

Subconsciously teaching kids that its bad to stand alone

So the seventh thing to remember is they want you to conform

To a predecided list of characteristics they call the norm

And the eighth thing to remember is the history is biased

Cause victors prefer to keep the losers' stories quiet

But if you listen closely you can hear the sound of silence:

Whispers of the victims of atrocities and violence


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The Council of Nicaea was Constantine's form of business

He denounced the scriptures of the group known as Meletian Christians

Omitted them from the bible then claimed that he had consensus

So don’t forget religion ain't immune to sovereign interest

Man its senseless how we buy into the fabricated conflict;

Both parties claim the other is the source of all our problems

So think before u take the pill of hate that they prescribe us

And remember that before they conquer us they must divide us

Waves of violence crash upon the diplomatic islands

Of western countries that was used to having money pilin'

Buyin' oil is no different than buying bricks bars or dro-

If you pay off the connect you can get that shit for the low

But the people have overthrown all of the tyrants we showered with gold

Cause they're sick and tired of being economically controlled

The Arab Spring has turned to winter hearts are growing cold

How we gon' react now that were ten feet deep in snow?


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