Fewer friends Means More Friends

down the river of small group disagreement

when we are in the flesh

this is where the empathy flows more easily

sailing down our river freely

when we can look into each others eyes

and truly wish upon each other, somewhat better lives

in this ocean of faceless mass entertainment

crushed in the digital press

swimming in normalized linguistic violence

all around you like a hurricane of grievance 

 oh my friend's list!!

how there is no friend, unless we agree

that the other is always evil, agree we must

 

and what use now is compromise...

from this

when hate is now what is monetized

now the enemy comes more easily

when we live in abstract rage

praying to the gods of grievance 

when we remove the human face

and put the enemy in its place

United States of America style...

      i.e if indeed it pays us money

      how could indeed it be so evil?

(a friend of a stranger asked a friend of a stranger)

"oh my friends!!  there is no friend." --  Some Dude, maybe aristotle

Author's Note

Reviews

[Crowley]

Weird, i was just pulling up this site and i saw your profile pic. I had just got out of my truck where i was listening to No Country for Old Men. Anywho, i like the original way you you framed this societal comment. The first stanza is really good. It is so true that our thoughts about friendship have changed. Too many people with too much information (true or not) clinging to talking points and preconceived beliefs that have taken over our ability to simply get to know one another outside of thst framework. Bravo, loved it!!

[Davidgeo]

The movie and the book respectively, are almost perfect in their own right. Cormac McCarthy wrote a great book and the Cohen brothers made maybe their best movie out of it. Javier Bardem plays one of the most unsettling villains in cinema history in my opinon.

Thanks for taking the time to review me. I try not to get to in the weeds with the social media aspect of culture but, man, it's inducing some very strange events in the US right now. A significant portion of the population is living in some strange conspiracy based main charachter fantasy... it used to be kinda amusing, but it's starting to become a little more frightening than I'm comfortable with.