Social Media

Social Media

It use to take me much longer to read the Washington Post

These days its more opinion, less fact, more advertising

Truth isn’t what it use to be, it is not absolute

 now merely an abstraction filtered from multiple sources

 then filtered over and over again until the homogenized product

 is spewed out in sound bites for beginner ears on social media

 pre-determined by algorithms placing each an everyone of us

 into isolation bubbles of so called information, in turn it makes us

 angry and serves to divide us and lash out in anonymity against

 more anonymous enemies in every direction.  

There is no accountability, we doubt science and hail the truckers.

 We all then become disjointed versions of ourselves

 in an environment of discontent.

 Influencers may beat their children and be haled as virtuous, but

 we are convinced we are fully informed and righteous in our

 cause. We adapt the corporate good-speak in which employees

 are now associates, but we can’t raise the minimum wage.

We know there are solutions to every problem

 but with the high level of division they remain elusive just beyond

 grasp ever creating a cycle of frustration.

 The memes promote fossil fuels, regression,

 and status quo while mocking innovation and change. 

 

Conservatives sell their fear and very souls on every street corner,

while the rich hide the not- for- profit

 social solutions, promote and finance a mock democracy

 even if the candidates

 are not real and the results can never be verified, 

They let you believe it is forever power to the people.

It will all trickle down.