The machine rages back
Marx and Engels were against people becomming cogs in the mechanics of industy. Marx labored for a long time wishing and hoping that man would someday decide not to become a cog and that one day we all would be equal. So much for that fantasy. 
Instead of cogs, we have become pentium chips in the motherboard of technology. I have arms and legs and a sadly out of shape torso but the only moving parts that matter is my fingers and eyes. Read-think-type-click data analyzed processed emailed. And the other chips in the machine hum away in response and somewhere down the line a special device outputs the finished product in the way it was designed to. Frequent lubrication, more and more nowadays using alcohol based lubricants to keep me maintained and on I go humming until one day I break or get upgraded.
And thats all I am, and thats all you are my friend. Even if you think you are refusing to be a cog in the great corporate machine which feeds the rich and subjugates the poor you still are. Your job? Your job is to entertain me, to frighten me and to scoff at be scoffed at by me so that I can better serve my purpose. Only angels and demons live outside of the plan, and since you are reading this you aren’t either one of them.
One cant help but be a cog, its in our nature, millions of years ago single celled organisms started organizing themselves, some became brains and some became assholes. So yeah both you and I are part of the same body both of us have a purpose, one to think the other to spew crap.
Its not my role to convince you how insignificant you are, that you are just an advanced form of bacteria living on a sperical lump of matter with no other purpose but to perpetuate and improve this great society. You will be dead long before you can bear witness to the ends which is just the means to an even greater end, and even if a greater end existed now you probably dont have the mental capacity to comprehend its existence. Your blood cells dont know you exist either.
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