SHAUL - Blockchain and Social Credit Score: Trust, Control, and the Future Lyrics

We possess the knowledge to solve each plight
Food clean energy shelter's light
To the moon the depths no bounds we see
Yet our own power's grip won't set us free
One finger pointed out three point back
Do you see do you track?

Trauma obstructs trust hinders cooperation's spark
Top-down models intermediaries effable dark
Indigenous wisdom from ground we return
Top-down or bottom-up which way do we return?
Dystopian divide and conquer control or quiet little voices light
Heartless capitalism and hungry ghost thrives on mistrust and fright

Trauma blocks trust trust obstructs our way
Top-down bottom-up which will save the day?
Effable and ineffable different games they play
Do we want control or unity to sway?

Consider China's social score
Cash obsolete ledgers store
Pandemic's lesson ledger's might
Canada's truckers frozen in the night
Block passports restrict the way
Control movement home or away
Bureaucracy is the death of intimacy and family spirit's foe
Past bureaucracy at least had fogged out faces behind the desk now just an error's glow

Hyper-connected every action seen
Comprehensive social credit scores dictate the scene
Trauma blocks trust cooperation's plea
Blockchain whispers set us free
Trauma blocks trust trust obstructs our way
Top-down bottom-up which will save the day?
Effable and ineffable different games they play
Do we want control or unity to sway?