by Frederic Rzewski (1938 - 2021)
Stuporman
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A specter is haunting the world, a ghost of something once alive, now become a curse. Capitalism: a system that should have died a hundred years ago, but which is able to keep itself alive with the debraining machine. The debraining machine! The great leveller! Which turns us all into stuporman! Yes, even you can be stuporman! And you! And you! And you! All of us, plugged in together, in step, gleichgeschaltet, heading for zombieland! Stumpfsinn, Stumpfsinn, du mein Vergnügen, Stumpfsinn, Stumpfsinn, du mein Lust! Please, Lord, let me not become a robot. Let me at last become a Mensch.
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Authorship:
- by Frederic Rzewski (1938 - 2021), written 2014
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Frederic Rzewski (1938 - 2021), "Stuporman", 2014 [ speaking pianist ], from Dear Diary, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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