Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Maintaining Our Sacred Dumbocracy

Commend a contempt for any literacy
Cultivate their urge to violence
Enhance the foreign boogeymen
Promote the artificial spectacle

Distract with empty franchised sport
Bury cryptic legalese within fine print
Foster distrust of long-term planning
Dumb down their grades and tests

Play soothing background music
Show peaceful family pictures
Leave journalism to the advertisers
Stay focused on short-term costs

Control science thru political debate
Finance their spot in a fuzzy heaven
Concoct hot-button litmus tests
Pit your enemies against our families

Seed the media with paid spokesmen
Stick to short hyperbolized sound bites
Read canned speeches with great passion
Relentlessly remain on simple, concocted messages

Paint all the issues in black or white
Celebrate with colorful, noisy waste
Always portray them as His Chosen People
Pretend to own the higher moral ground

Belittle those who go in-depth
Substitute tweets for editorials
Forgo plot for special effects
Help them to be dependent on illegal labor

Reward them richly for gutting industr
Label air, water and soil as ignorable externalities
Equate blind greed with patriotism
Cite tradition but ignore real history

Anoint Social Darwinism as god’s will
Call bankers ourA Best and Brightest
Keep fast food and cold beer cheap
Promise them that their kids shall lead the world

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