Overindulgence of pleasure, immediate
satisfaction of misplaced needs, technological
era constantly produces new and better ways to feel pleasure, to
be disconnected from the self as connection with strangers is pushed, to
rely on machines and not the body, selling
products to improve your life, to
make life easier and yet it is the struggle we all admire, needs
of man are the same as they once were, yet
through manipulation of such needs, we are cornered into believing we need the,
new, new, new.
Need friendship, not the new phone to talk to your friends
need freedom, not the new car to go where you like
need thought to understand your anxieties, not
anti-anxiety, anti-depression, anti-emotions, anti-feelings, anti-self
pills of disconnect
new and better pills
solve your problems?
No?
new and better pills
now? addicted?
solved.
Easier and easier to be lost
new apps to find your way
daily suicide of the self
new ways to join groups
wish to improve yourself?
follow me, new gurus arise each day
want my life? Follow these steps
lies for popularity
prostituting the self for likes
can I get a like?
Shell is yours but what is inside it isn’t you
you mouth the words of other people, without
ever using your mind to think, puppet
on strings, move like others
the individuals are slowly dying
the group is rapidly rising
more new technology
less connection
new being
less human.
Learned Living 