Ongoing deep discounts, sales, clearances and special offers
build a sense of permanence
Continuous anticipation of quickly-forgotten weekends,
holidays and vacations sustains us
The very newest constantly beckons us forward into a quite-obviously,
endless tomorrow
A thousand advertisements draw each of us warmly into that
timeless consumer firelight
Soothing background music hypnotically imprints us with
eternal marketing mantras
Careful spins reformat issues into sound bites that the average
3rd grader can easily digest
Within this media immersion, we dream ourselves passing thru
eternity at these daily lives
Homogenized spokesmen blend seamlessly to envelop us in an
easily-accepted and secure cocoon
Our lifestyles have reached a permanent climax in the
pleasure-seeking 3 minute present
We pre-consciously dismiss evidence contradicting the
eternal happily-ever-after diorama
The circle of family and friends bonds us tightly to a
shared dream of unending belonging
The void lies almost totally obscured and unconsidered
behind our colorful veil of illusion
We need only strive thru all time at becoming the beautiful
models their ads portray for us
The infinite circle of merchant-stoked holidays fosters in
us a comforting notion of immortality
Together we tread the great wheel of relaxation, refreshment
and entertainment
And our bright mega-churches finance a seamless transition
to a familiar eternal paradise
Next week’s episodes draw us forward smoothly without any
static-filled interruptions
Stopping to smell the roses as we grab the gusto while
living for today totally occupies us
The unknowable actual number of our iterations allows us to
assume we perform an infinite loop
Cuddly and warm images help obscure the sharply-tattered
edges that we must rightly ignore
The afterlife is marketed as the ultimate in all-inclusive
vacations in a truly eternal paradise
Those who pass away are expensively packaged for the
exciting but safe trip to come
Our powerful mass hypnosis mostly keeps any consciousness of
the eternal void at bay
The rapid pace of change obscures well the tiny hourglass
filling in right over top of us
The nattering of bobbing media heads lulls us into a
comfortable sense of security
Advertiser-safe news holds our focus adjusted safely inside
the blinders they so cannily provide
The cartoon theme of Personal Responsibility keeps the
disaffected securely in the game
Sacrificing our reason frees us from agitating contemplation
of any cracks in the mirror
There is absolutely no reason to think that this consumer
lifestyle cycle will ever cease
We walk this treadmill seeing a well-lit and unending path
towards the happily-ever-after
Socialists and creationists equally shielded from the near
absolute zero of utter black emptiness
Even on our deathbeds we rest assured of an eternal well-being within these shared
illusions
