On the brink of the worst scenario.

Obsessive behavior on a global scale.

Dumb regimes hacking email.

The future itself is just one big sale.

Sometimes it feels like Orwell

thirty years in the making.

*

So, who said all this hi-tech, digital stuff at our fingertips

would be good for mankind in the long run?

.

Hitler made fascism a horrific thing

whereas

Corporate America makes fascism 

fun, profitable
and so technologically cool.
  

So does that mean 

fascism is better than a democracy?

I get so tired hearing them say,

'This Is Not What We Are'

when it's exactly what we are.

GOP, the Greatest Party

They governed us into the great depression,

the great resignation, the great privatization
idea and more recently the great recession,

Great! I think to myself, just great!

All this greatness really grates on my nerves.

if she holds her breath and survives the dunking
she is guilty of witchcraft
but if she drowns then she's considered innocent

*

the leader steps out and gets something done
then is accused of doing too much
by those who don't want to do anything

While  shooting pool at the senior center I listened to everyone's opinion about world affairs and it occurred to me so few opinions actually apply to the way people live their life's but just having an opinion seems to make them feel better about themselves.  So, I thought to myself, in haiku, if you

change their opinions

you disrupt the foundations

of their self esteem.

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We are all so flawed,

so duped and so misinformed.

So American.

The cable guy came by to upgrade my internet modem yesterday.  He told me his company was buying up or pushing out all the other local media providers in the area.  I asked him how it felt working for a monopoly, a criminal venture.  He seemed unaware of this fact but went on to explain how personal circumstances prevented him from finding another job in a area where jobs were hard to find.  I said I thought the economy was in good shape.  He looked at me like I was crazy then he went on a mini-rant about Obama being the blame for everything.  I laughed because you just can't reason with these people.

Nevertheless, my modem is working a lot better than before.