Here's how math actually works in the real world, depending on who is doing the counting.
Real Math
1 + 1 = 2
God alone makes true
1 + 1 = 1
Wedding vows begun
1 + 1 = 3
Life’s deep mystery
2 + 2 = 5
When woke tyrants thrive
1 + 1 = 10
AI rules all men
1 + 1 + 1 = 1
Triune glory spun.
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Notes:
the "=" symbol is read as "is" to maintain the rhythmic meter.
2 + 2 = 5: A nod to Orwell’s 1984: the ultimate mark of postmodern society, where political power compels us to endorse what is plainly false.
1 + 1 = 10: Binary code, the language of computers, expresses everything in terms of only two digits: 0 and 1. In this system, "2" is expressed as "10." The cold math of a technocratic future that views people as digits rather than souls.
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