Medicine is the new shopping mall of body as a business.
Chemo is the new death lottery.
Cynicism is the new sugar.
Politics is the new
comedy channel.
Reality TV is the new neighborhood development with close
quarters,
thin walls, two-way mirrors, and with pervading disingenuous
lifestyles.
Cell phones are the new teleportation means in small doses
for
practical practice sessions in a timely manner.
News medias are the new three
card Monty dealers.
Congress is the new traveling circus with the largest tent
and the widest variety of bizarre performing acts.
The Internet is the new
two-way confessional
without religious overtones yet nothing is sacred.
Blackout rage is the newest raise-your-hand to get noticed.
Religion is the new
tattered and sun-faded prayer flags
blowing in unstable climate change
conditions.
Objective reductionism is the newest kind of being exposed
as a
kind of prohibitive of mind development.
Groupthink is the new set of petri
dishes for news media experimentation.
Consciousness is the new matter and it’s
matter-less.
Power is the new graffiti of the unspoken-ness,
sprawled all over
the unsaid, evident everywhere.
And “is the
new” is a relocation protection program
for those genetically cynical.