IDEAL CITIZENS: Reflections on Social Identity and Conformity

IMAGE: A young woman with folded hand in an half-unzipped orange parka against a concrete wall.

	Ideal citizens have no particular views –
	they consume passively
	& do what they're supposed to do.

	Ideal citizens are predictably quaint –
	never quipping about anything
	they ignore all obvious mistakes.

	Ideal citizens are like zippers on set tracks –
	they slide as their masters wish
	avoiding inconvenient snags with knack.


Anya: 	An ideal citizen would be a robot.

Brice: 	Agreed. Humans are too foolish and difficult to train.

Devani: At some point in time, humans might become robots.

Carlos: (pausing) Perhaps. However, I doubt that we will be around to hear them.

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from POEATIONS: Explorations in meta-poetry by T Newfields
Summary: Some thoughts about social conformity, identity, and humanity.  
Keywords: social compliance, selfhood, invented identities, idealization, post-humans

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2002 in Nagoya, Japan ☆ Finished: 2023 in Shizuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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