There is…
A future where technology outpaces wisdom
Leading to a people who can’t spy fantasy
And unable to grasp complex truths
To make crucial decisions for society
When awesome technological powers…
Are in the hands of a very few
And no one representing the public interest
Can even grasp the issues
When the people have lost the ability
To set their own agendas or knowledgeably
Question those… in authority
When the dumbing down, is most evident…
In this slow, exponential decay
Of substantive content in the enormously…
Influential media, at play
micro… sound… bites…
My… ears… are… alight
With lowest common denominator programming
Credulous presentations on pseudoscience
And superstition, their mission
But especially a celebration… of ignorance
When, clutching our crystals
And nervously consulting our horoscopes
Our critical faculties, in decline
Unable to distinguish… just hope…
What feels good and what’s true
We slide, almost without noticing
Back into superstition and darkness…
So, with a new intelligence… let us begin