Drawn in to the mindlessness of it all;
\nthere is a seeming sense of distance<\/p>\n
from one’s
\nself<\/p>\n
induced by a feeling of a separate world.
\nInside electronic circuits,
\nconducted on waves we decode with boxes.
\nA world perfidiously injected into the<\/p>\n
consciousness
\nof all<\/p>\n
who perceive it.<\/p>\n
That world masks any vestige of reality
\nleft in the conscious experience of
\nits mindless addicts.<\/p>\n
That world coming through the box
\ndistorts our relationship to the here and now.
\nIt brings us a world<\/p>\n
other than here,
\nother than now.<\/p>\n
And yet,
\nit brings the world into the superficial
\nrealms of sensory experience.<\/p>\n
Left confused, muddled,
\ninundated, and manipulated
\nby the complexity of a world not understood:
\nit is a haven.<\/p>\n
A haven for mindless escape from a world
\nthat leaves us confused, muddled.
\nA world that inundates us with complexity.<\/p>\n
We have no seeming control over that perfidious<\/p>\n
electronic injection
\ninto our consciousness.<\/p>\n
(Except, of course, the remote control.)<\/p>\n
But to turn off that box is to return our consciousness
\nto the reality of the world the box allowed an escape from,
\nand an escape to.<\/p>\n
Once poisoned thus,
\nnever can a world be experienced in quite the same way.
\nNever can a world be truly experienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drawn in to the mindlessness of it all;
there is a seeming sense of distance<\/p>\n
from one’s
self<\/p>\n
induced by a feeling of a separate world.
Inside electronic circuits,
conducted on waves we decode with boxes.
A world perfidiously injected into the<\/p>\n
consciousness
of all<\/p>\n
who perceive it.<\/p>\n
That world masks any vestige of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}