Negativland Megaphone Guy Lyrics

So what do we do with Megaphone Guy?
He's not the smartest person at the party
Or the most experienced
Or the most articulate
But he's got that megaphone

Megaphone guy
Some are agreeing with him, some disagree
But because he's so loud
Their conversations will begin to react to what he's saying
As he changes topics, so do they
If he continually uses the phrase “at the end of the day”
They start using it too

It's our users who control what they see
(Making money making money)
Old technologies get confused with new ones
(Making money making money)

His main characteristic is his dominance
He crowds the other voices out
But who can polish information to the web?
His rhetoric becomes the central rhetoric
Because of it's unavoidability Host original content
Unfortunately
(Milliseconds)
When you use a search engine
(Unavoidability)
You will also find what is called “user generated content”

We consider speech to be the result of thought
But thought also results from speech
As we develop words towards meaning we discover what we think
The number one thing we do is give people a voice

This yammering guy has by forcibly putting his
Restricted language into the head of the guests
Put an intelligence ceiling on the party
Right, right
Thank you so much for articulating our business model

So what do we do with Megaphone Guy?
I mean, he's here
And it pops you into the content itself
One thing I think you try to do is not be him
Which we all
Are

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