[Verse 1]
Scrolling through the feed at seventy-five beats per minute
Mind's a crowded marketplace, every story wants to win it
Attention ain't unlimited, it's currency that's precious
Budget getting smaller while the noise grows more aggressive
Comedian says goodbye, takes the spotlight for the day
Epidemic in the background starts to slowly fade away
Not because we're heartless, not because we've lost compassion
Just the bandwidth that we carry can't process every passion
[Chorus]
So what, so what, when everything's competing
So what, so what, our mental space depleting
Rationed not callous, budgets not malice
Metabolizable stories rise above the static
So what, so what, hierarchy's selecting
So what, so what, what deserves protecting
[Verse 2]
Module zero sets the table before the feast begins
Emotional real estate decides which story wins
Digestible defeats important every single time
Simple narrative will beat the complex paradigm
One farewell's digestible while crisis overwhelms
Processing power limited in our mental realms
Truth gets filtered through what we can actually handle
Not what matters most but what our minds can dismantle
[Chorus]
So what, so what, when everything's competing
So what, so what, our mental space depleting
Rationed not callous, budgets not malice
Metabolizable stories rise above the static
So what, so what, hierarchy's selecting
So what, so what, what deserves protecting
[Bridge]
Reading rooms and public moods
Understanding what intrudes
Before Module Four appears
Grasp the filtering that steers
Ambient information flows
Techno beat of how mind knows
Disco lights on what we choose
Chillstep rhythm of the news
[Verse 3]
Laboratory of attention running experiments daily
Every headline's hypothesis tested automatically
Cognitive load assessment happening subconsciously
Survival mechanism sorting consciously and cautiously
Entertainment value measured against the mental cost
Complexity gets abandoned, simplicity's not lost
Human hearts aren't broken, just the bandwidth is constrained
Module zero's where the hierarchy gets trained
[Verse 4]
Algorithm knows our limits better than we do
Feeding us the portions that we're capable to chew
Crisis fatigue setting in, compassion growing thin
Not by choice but design of how our minds begin
To filter signal from the noise, priority from panic
Metabolic rate of empathy, systematic not organic
[Chorus]
So what, so what, when everything's competing
So what, so what, our mental space depleting
Rationed not callous, budgets not malice
Metabolizable stories rise above the static
So what, so what, hierarchy's selecting
So what, so what, what deserves protecting
[Outro]
Seventy-five beats per minute
Attention's getting thinner
So what determines the winner
In this crowded mental dinner