A Manual for the Modern Messiah

1 Build a rocket. 2 Burn the sky. 3 Preach green 4 then mine cobalt 5 by hands in Congo 6 no dashboard ever shows.

7 Sell freedom 8 140 characters at a time 9 but silence dissent, 10 boost bots, 11 fire thousands by email 12 while tweeting memes.

13 Claim you're not political 14 then salute beside fascists, 15 mock pronouns, 16 parrot conspiracy, 17 blame the ADL 18 on the machine you call free.

19 Propose tunnels, 20 drill dreams— 21 a single lane 22 for millionaires 23 to sit in traffic, 24 but underground.

25 Say it saves lives. 26 Then pay $243 million 27 when it doesn’t. 28 Market Level 2 as Full 29 and let the lawyers 30 finish the sentence.

31 Create a brain chip. 32 Don't mention 33 the monkeys. 34 If they die, 35 bury them 36 in undisclosed filings.

37 Start with solar roofs. 38 Promise ethical cars. 39 Sell fire as merch. 40 Meme a currency. 41 Let lawsuits stack 42 beside the trucks.

43 Laugh. 44 Call it all 45 the meme economy. 46 When it crashes, 47 say it was 48 a simulation.

— Lilith