Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

beautifully expressed roy

eight years ago I turned off the news i read an article that posited I would feel better if I did and for the most part it worked but I'm a slave to social media to some degree which means I cannot totally live in a vacuum I seem to know most evrything my friends know with no CNN, or Fox, or NPR the...

apathetic binge-watching fat-headed lazy assed busy being idle not-my-jobbers illiterate by choice blindly sheepish dumb as a box of rocks too tired to think mindless followers to the cliff believing his ridiculous lies you can fly, it'll be great falling buyers remorsefully end over end dive-bombin...

From Hans Christian Anderson
to George Orwell, we were warned
but the plotters placated us to sleep
we lost our resistance in Nintendo
our fight for democracy in Netflix
our muscles in the Laz-y-boy recliner
our fire in the gulf of america

Big Beautiful Betrayal
reflections of orange
upon their special invisible suits
the emporer is pleased
with their yellow shaking knees
he isn't stupid, he is the only one able
to see their shrinking genetalia

Great responses..

Chris Hedges wrote a teriffic book that went in to all this he titled

" The Empire of Illusion"

with the striking subtitle of " The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle "

pretty much sums it up.....I read it ages ago, but I think I may reread it now

appealing recount.....photos, story.....I sure miss those explorations.....who knows maybe I'll get another crack at it.....one must be hopeful........................................especially in the new world

republicans took a timorous step off the cliff that they will regret....throughout history it wasn't disobedience that led to downfalls like we are experiencing... it was always... Obedience.....they complied like yellow dogs I wonder how much lower they can stoop, where is the bottom,...what will m...

thanx a bunch Doreen

thanx so much, I sold this one soon as I posted it...a rarity