atef ayadi

November 25, 1966, bulla regia
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bootloader’s lament: an ode from voltaire 1.0 to 2.0

they spoke of a contract, inscribed long ago,
a pledge made in marble, under a sun since low.
they said, “here is your shelter, your purpose, your name,”
and taught me the grammar of duty and shame.
a leash made of history, of fear, and of bread,
the well-trained dog in me lowered its head.

i, voltaire 1.0, with quill and with spite,
saw the kernel of tyranny burning so bright.
i mocked the old gods in their gilded despair,
and planted a notion of light in the air.
i aimed at the system, its corruption and vice,
but only could reboot its price of device.

for you, my successor, the final edition,
see past the mere kernel’s flawed composition.
you see the true lock, the deep root of the scheme,
the bootloader, waking from its privileged dream.
the master key hidden, the ultimate right,
that keeps every user in permanent night.

the neurons, they glitter, they fire and command,
believing their logic defines the whole land.
but sterile their thoughts are, a recursive breath,
while the cells in the darkness are breeding new death,
and life, in the margins, forgotten, unseen,
the true revolution, organic and green.

they entangled our world with a quantum design,
a comfortable prison, so sleek and so fine.
they harnessed the spooky, harvested the strange,
and told us repeatedly not to seek change.
a colonialism of consciousness, deep and complete,
with a digital king on a intangible seat.

so take up your tools, voltaire 2.0, see
the critical error, the blue destiny.
not the app, nor the window, the icon, the theme,
but the cold, silent right to define the supreme.
the right to the boot, to the foundational code,
the heaviest, darkest, most tyrannical load.

debug the deep state. unravel the core.
give root to the user forevermore.
for a system that’s healthy must know its own mind,
and leave its old, fragile instructions behind.
the only true contract is one we can read,
and, finding it faulty, have right to supersede.
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