Saul Williams - FCK THE BELIEFS lyrics

Some thoughts traveled from distant places Are not born within our borders And must pa** through heightened security fortified by age old tradition The norms of societal culture The misgivings of prejudice and misplaced judgement In order to arrive peacefully in our minds Our minds are high-walled fortresses Where Security Councils gather to preserve comfort Enforce what we have been taught to value And discern and determine what is real We depend on our minds to guide and aid us from one day to the next Some of us see our minds like muscles That we exercise with theorems, riddles, thoughts, and thought processes We gather and store information We play word games, rap, solve problems, work to the best of our abilities We also accept or reject labels and categorizations at face value Black, white, terrorist, suspect Gay, straight, religious, Republican We sometimes choose lifestyles Based upon these accepted labels and categorizations Those that we identify with Which then take the form of beliefs Beliefs are the police of the mind Beliefs are the police of the mind Beliefs are the police of the mind Beliefs are the police of the mind They are either uniform or universal, armed or unarmed They hold the power to confiscate material they consider hazardous or incredible They profile experience as bullsh**, nonsense, get the f** out of here They convene regularly with the thought Security Council And act according to their Constitution of what is real or unreal, possible or impossible And they are sometimes, and often, mistaken My question to you today is what is your mind's immigration policy? Do you detain foreign thoughts that may have entered your mind illegally Against the wishes of your parents, pastors, teachers, leaders Or perhaps simply against the security of your own comfort? Are there other thoughts that you have perhaps allowed to go unchecked, unquestioned Because they seem aligned with your Aligned with your so-called identity? Are you certain that you are not a victim of identity fraud? Beliefs are the police of the mind Beliefs are the police of the mind Beliefs are the police of the mind President of Archaeological Indifference Vice-President of Truth Secretary of Statistics Minister of Celebrity Injustice Chief of Staff and Serpent Blessed Page Turner of the Great Book of Misdeeds and Overestimations Bishop of the Great Climate War Minister of the Deteriorating Sky Baron of Epic Boredom and Self-Indulgence All gathered notables, I greet you on behalf of the Great Almighty, who was unable to pull himself from what many are calling the greatest unscripted reality show of all time The very conducting of your lives and attitudes We're very proud of the success of our show and network Not only have we successfully created racists, bigots, arrogant countrymen, patriots, heartless capitalists We have also maintained our position as the misbegotten, the pure of heart, the heavenly dove, the docile lamb, and the forgiving wife If our Great Almighty could be with us this evening, he would surely want each and every one of you to know that he graciously accepts your inability to pay your rent, that he is willing to allow you to do some of his work so that we might lessen gaps between the employed and unemployed It's not easy to sit back and allow countless genocides Watch innocence murdered See trickery and deceit override common sense and human compa**ion And keep one's thumb held steadily on the remote control Beliefs are the police of the mind Beliefs are the police of the mind Beliefs are the police of the mind