Age of The Follower
/An Ode to Marshall McLuhan
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Mobility, the catch-all disclaimer,
the raison d'être of the medium,
fashions modern knowledge
to taste...like, newsy sushi
Too consumed to rest, we
gorge on fast-food bytes,
force-fed by clever manipulations,
creating an inertia fuelled by Likeness
No labels warn of consumption...
Truthiness, the new calorie,
Conspiracy, the trans fat
More often vacuous, but...damn tasty
By inverse of the intent,
instead of joining a disparate people
around the globe, unaware, we are
herded into paddocks of similarity
Lost is the inspiration borne
of adversarial thought, intellectual discourse,
empathetic persuasion and celebratory consensus,
to the echo chamber of like-mindedness
By Marc Charette
From: Canada
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