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I am machine

This past weekend I went to see Three Days Grace and Three Doors Down in concert in Hinckley, MN with my Dad and two brothers.  First off, it was a fricken' amazing show!  But, a lot of stuff came up for me there that I'm trying to process now. When Three Days Grace came out the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.  The lights were all out, and a speech from the movie Charlie Chaplin's 'The Dictator'  was on in the background: We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.  Our  knowledge  has made us  cynical . Our cleverness,  hard and unkind . We  think  too much and  feel  too little.  More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need  kindness  and gentleness.  Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men — machine men with machine minds and machine  hearts ! You are not machines! when the the speech got to t...