a crow will eventually forget the sky if it comes upon a field covered in shiny scrap metals.

i had an epiphany. i am not sure precisely when the epiphany occurred, but, it did occur at some time in my adult life. it occurred one night during a brief walk down a street. on this street were many shops, of all varieties, small and big, complete with giant glowing signs with brand names illuminated.

i looked up at the stars and realized this was all bullshit.

the easiest way to keep a man a slave is to teach him from birth that he is not a slave at all.

teach him that his cage is not an imprisonment.

the bars do not exist.

no, sir, the slave master will say, these are not bars. no way.

why these bars are your universe, your earth, your city, your home.

see where these bars are?

yes you'll say

this is your dawn
this is your dusk
this is your church
this is your family
this is your obligation
this is your cemetery
this is your grave
this is you
this is all you will know
the cage bars do not exist
recites the slave master

few will question the cage

great evil rarely exists, but it does exist today. media they call it.

electronic and analog media in the 21st century exists solely to direct a person's thinking a certain way.

buy this. vote that. feel this. hate that.

influence over millions with small effort. this concept is very scary to me.

media needs to be communicated. the faster the communication the better.

thus we have twitter.

look at such a great tool! a device to ensnare the minds of millions, a distraction from their mundane lives. it is free too!

twitter goes down and millions of people are in woe and confusion. they don't know what to do with their mind without the constant distraction of twitter updates.

oh no.

of course poetry is dead, literature is dying and the mind of the youth is superficial.

these are not bars. no sir. this here, well, this is an ipod, this here is a blackberry handheld device, and this is twitter. not bars at all.