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In the cathedral of manufactured quiet 

where Taylor Swift counts streaming revenue 

as Palestinian children count final breaths 

her voice carries across stadiums but never holds the weight of genocide

When the tide turns, when sales drop, when focus groups demand it,

she will speak then, only then, when silence costs more than speaking

Taylor Swift ain't no prophet in this arena, Taylor Swift is just merchant in the temple of lies


Now Beyoncé, empress of selective outrage, 

her posed formation means nothing 

when formations of tanks roll through refugee camps, 

her crown heavy with diamonds mined from silence about mass graves

But when market research shows, when demographics shift, when staying quiet kills the brand, 

they will find their voice then— conveniently, righteously then

Beyoncé ain't no goddess in this church, Beyoncé is the calculating priestess of profit


The Kardashians, architects of emptiness, 

building empires from manufactured drama 

while real drama unfolds in operating rooms without electricity, without anaesthesia 

hundred million followers hanging on every word they refuse to say about ethnic cleansing

But when algorithms change, when silence becomes unmarketable, they will pivot, 

reinvent, rebrand their Konscience

Kardashians ain't no deities in this temple, Kardashians are false prophets of the attention economy


DJ Khaled, the unholy son of the Palestinian earth

stands deaf to his homeland's dying screams, 

millions of records sold but zero words for his people's salvation 

The irony burns like white phosphorus lungs: 

A Palestinian artist silent about Palestinian genocide?

But when cultural winds shift, when staying quiet becomes career suicide, 

he will remember his roots then, claim them then, profit from them

DJ Khaled ain't no son in this sky, DJ Khaled is a prodigal coward counting coins


Madonna, high priestess of reinvention, will reinvent her morals when convenient

Kabbalah bracelets and spiritual tourism 

while the actual holy land hemorrhages children 

She dances around truth until truth becomes profitable, 

then watch her transform overnight into born-again activist when market demands martyrdom

Madonna ain't no saint on this rosary, Madonna's chameleon worshipping a golden calf


They all got the same publicist, the same crisis management team, 

same focus group data showing that silence sells until it doesn't, 

that neutrality pays until it costs, that staying quiet works until it kills the brand

These golden calves will melt when fire gets hot enough, 

they will speak when algorithms demand it, 

they will find their voices when voices find them profitable

Between market research and quarterly reports and demographic studies 

showing genocide denial doesn't test well anymore, 

they will discover their humanity

they will conveniently discover their outrage, 

they will performatively discover their principles


But the dead children will still be dead 

and their silence during slaughter will echo longer than eventual carefully crafted statements 

approved by legal teams and blessed by shareholders


Resist the golden calves 

Oppose merchants of silence 

Remember who spoke when it mattered 

Remember who stayed quiet until it paid


Truth outlasts trends 

The dead will remember the living's silence 

The market may forgive but history will not.

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