With apologies to Supertramp…
The Logical Song [SD version]
When I was young, it seemed that life was so analogue,
Real-world-based, all was library-bound, catalogued.
And all the books in the stacks, well they’d be sitting so patiently,
Noiselessly, low-tech-edly a-waiting me.
But then they wired up the world to teach us how to be synergous,
Networked and wireless, frictionless, time-zone-less.
And they showed me a world where I could be so post-structural,
Meta-, hyper-textual, digital.
There are times when all the world’s asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such simulacra.
Won’t you please, please feed the board’s hamsters,
I need some more answers,
Please give me what I seek.
Now watch what you say
Or they’ll be calling you a Straight Dope troll,
Radical, fanatical, criminal.
Won’t you stick with your name, we’d like to feel you’re an
Acceptable, respectable, presentable, member original!
[Hey-ya, take, take, take it away!]
[sax solo]
At night, when the USA’s asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such simulacra.
Won’t you please, please do a Google search,
Don’t leave me in the lurch,
And cite some more data…