PostEnlightenment: Unintended Consequences
In my late middle age, I emigrated
from linear thought and paper
to the New World of meaning-making
- digital and screens -
and the dubious democracy
of social media.
With the accents of logic and rhetoric
I spoke this new foreign language
of tweets and memes,
aspiring to live the Technology Dream
of constant accessibility
to information and delusions.
(My grandfather told me
before he was born
no plane had flown,
and before he died,
a man walked on the moon.)
The Great Generation saw movies,
still shared pageants and singing,
but welcomed electric light,
phones, radios, and tvs
into their homes, ----
steps towards this hive mind dance.
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