Respond to 2025: Industrial Heat
Industrial Heat
Time to get on with it
A good day at the factory
A cool down on the hamster wheel
A tin ramekin caressing the wage cage
7.5 hours of heaven – baybey
The concept of ‘work’ was first coined by the hunter(& or)gatherers as kill / smash / kill fuck in the caves skin a few dino bones and rinse and repeat for a million years until it got streamlined by a MS office subscription and afterpay – then by some Romans as an empire of suffering or perhaps progress eventually toasted ravioli and the aqueducts – it always is funny that Serf = misery but Surf = fun times on the waves hang ten – is that a dichotomy – Fifth Harmony said you ain’t gotta go to work, work, work, work – but that Ellen, is factually incorrect (see hunter (& or) gatherers) – the first person to answer an email probably thought that they would change the world – who threw the first stone at MailChimp? Who stormed the barricade at the Metaverse? – there are so many questions about the etymology of our shared sufferings – how Karl Marx became the father, the daddy, then the zaddy, why the anon NPCs on an R/Australia post said they were triggered by the phrase you have a new MyGov message, how SEO can now determine the exact cause of yr death if u don’t have an MPhil in becoming a digital content creator from birth ur abso fucked. The Glassdoor review of the industrial complex says – 1/5 DID NOT WORK! There is a Temu package of democracy delivered across the shallow ocean in only three days – a cardboard cut-out of Western civilisation not even bloody big enough to dream a whole bloody dream
Recently – on a program called the news – a whole apartment building of retirees burnt down bc the government paid a billionaire to use the cheapest plastic to cover like one of those mortifying hospital blankets – if you want to speak biblically – it seemed like God was burning his ants with a magnifying glass (or) maybe a reckoning against retirees who’ve fallen out of the literal and philosophical complex – which sounds more like a disorder than progress at least in – that people have to d*e for the world to keep turning that life gets cheaper everyday $2 used to be a comfortable life in the 50s now it’s the price of a yap – how many Ford Rangers have to block the exits b4 we implode? how many variants does it take to make us whole again? How many pop stars do we send to space before we will learn that the key to living is literally dying if u don’t believe me I’ve made room in my Amazon coffin for u <3
The façade of work was unravelled in a Vice documentary I got suggested to me after filling in a job profile – open to work (yes) open to joy (yes) open to remote yearning (yes) open to unravelling (Yes! Yes! Yes!) showing people staring at screens to pass the time in the olden days the cave folk would draw pictures on rocks now the wage folk play solitaire it gets tedious doesn’t it to invoice your soul and bones but where would we be w/o iTunes they say employment is wasted on this generation bc they want to take PTO & hot girl walks around the block robodebt sounds cool till u realise it’s not dystopian this new oil slick solution from Mac makes the Pacific look snatched yesterday they thought someone was living in the walls he got made CEO a 2-year old corrected my form at F45 and I found myself becoming a NIMBY it’s high time we accept our coggy disso when wanting a better world but then filling the cart w Lululemon during the diva boots apocalypse can u believe the latest iPhone only cost $1600 and someone’s fingers worth it (for the free shipping) you get what u pay for when ur AI hire has mother(board) issues everyone can be replaced Jan don’t think ur not disposable because you have morals or tenure look at the state of the Amazon for the worker’s in song keep climbing up the proverbial ladder to revolution we may b ugly but we do have SportsBet The Man ™ does cultural sensitivity training in a new development paved over bones on Chrissy Edith’s boy gets a latch key I left my phone on DND but it still listened to my weeping
Olivia De Zilva is a writer from Kaurna Yerta / Adelaide. She is the author of two novels, Plastic Budgie and Eggshell both published in 2025.