A PERFECT AMERICAN : Some dystopian thoughts in honor of George Orwell

	My brain is shrinking
	and I feel increasingly dumb.
	Hours & hours of television
	are making my conscience numb.

	I work without emotion
	like a well-programmed machine
	without thinking deeply:
	my life is a programmed routine.

	Fulfilling production quotas is easy
	& what I say is usually considered “correct.”
	However, I must mask any traces of doubt –
	critics are marked derelict.

	Was there actually an invasion of Syria?
	Was the election of Donald Trump rigged?
	Did Libya's leader vanish
	because Washington willed it?
	Such “facts” are fading from memory.

	Although I’m not a perfect citizen yet
	Homeland Security informs me I’m doing well:
	Soon I’ll be an exemplary citizen –
	a true patriotic Yankee
	ready to do whatever our leaders order,
	as predictable as Pavlov's bell.

Terri : George Orwell would love this poem.

Ted : 	We’re even better at manipulating emotion now than we were in the 20th century.

Sam : 	Isn’t human DNA is the basic problem? It seems flawed to me.

Ted : 	Yeah (pouring himself a beer while taking out his eye). Maybe so.

Kris : 	(spitting while removing her artificial hair, then removing her artificial eyebrows) 
        Is utopia mere a matter of genetic engineering?

Terri : I think you seriously overestimate the power of governments.

Kris : 	(gerping loudly while turning red) And you underestimate the power of greed.

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from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A noir satire about disinformation and the warping of democracy in the United States.
KEYWORDS: mutant democracy, brain washing, pseudo-democracy, American decline, dumbing-down information

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1970 in Newtown, PA, USA / Finished: 2024 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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