The Reality Bending

Mind numbing

Cognitive dissonance

Dichotomous information

Coming through

Multiple outlets

Generated from

The exact same source

(Advertisers)

Via constant content

Through news and sports

Scandals and cover-ups

Recycled and repeated

Content to confuse with

Competing contexts

Chaos and conundrums

Reveals clearly what

Not who is in control

That of the multinational

Greedy pig corporations

Serving humanity by

Destroying its habitat

Through consumption

Of temporary items

Ready to replace

With recycled rubbish

By reminding you

You are not enough

Without abysmal

Emptiness filling stuff



“I don’t know what word in the English language, I can’t find one, applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets, the word evil doesn’t even begin to approach it. ”

– Noam Chomsky


Let this sink in.

“Chomsky is credited with revolutionizing the linguistics field by introducing the Chomsky hierarchy, generative grammar and the concept of a universal grammar, which underlies all human speech and is based in the innate structure of the mind/brain.”

– College of Social and Behavioral Sciences



In an effort to unbend reality, next time you are at a store, look at the stuff you are not looking for. The stuff, usually hanging “randomly” on an extension of the shelf you are walking by.

As I write this, what comes to mind is a “brand”- piece of plastic square two-piece sandwich holder. Retail, about $ 4.⁰⁰ with probably a $ .⁷⁷ COGS bottom line expense. If purchased by whoever, it will probably get used about five times before it ends up in the trash. Then, going back to the disposable sandwich, clear double sealed bags that do the same thing with less hassle.

Whether it be that, or whatever eye-catching garbage is for sale, stop and contemplate that somewhere it was manufactured using petroleum products to make it, cardboard, plastic, and ink to package it. Shipped from thousands of miles away, stuffed into a metal container, unloaded near a shore, transferred to a warehouse.

Organized to be redistributed to competing retailers, for just-in-time inventory to hundreds of various retailers. Only to land in a landfill. Which will require more petroleum to power the bulldozers used to bury the discarded plastic.

If through other means, it doesn’t end up floating in the ocean. Which gets there, by dumping it……in the ocean. Ooopsie. As part of the process of manufacturing the stuff we will throw away anyway.



“Ever wonder why we’re fucked up as a species?”


– Bill Hicks


Whether you buy it or not, look down the burgeoning soda aisle, with all of its brightly colored distinctive corporate packaging. Now imagine, if it was all just black lettering on a white background that read. Hi fructose colored flavored corn syrup with fizzy carbonation, forcing you to look for the “flavor” you wanted in small print. Next to the “diet” sodas, loaded with aspartame. Which aren’t really about diet and more for addiction.

Who knew a glass of water would sound so appealing right now.




“I write to expunge the darkness
So that someday
Light may shine through”


– Angelo Devlin