How they murdered the truth ( or all hail the new news media )

Truth was not killed silently 

In a back room in Denver  

Truth was murdered on the nightly news 

Was  hung drawn and quartered in public view 

 

Murdered with a thousand insults

Silenced  with cries for its execution

We do nt need experts 

Listen to us 

We ll give you back your identity Your sense of national purpose 

 

Dangerously serious and humourless people told me lying was the new truth and I should shut up and listen 

 

Rise and shine became a hashtag#  no longer a morning greeting to your children 

As when I was a child 

A symbol of love had become just another directionless meme of corporate consensus salesmanship   

Just empty words 

No nutriment like cornflakes made of cardboard  

 

The hour of hate began with reading the daily mail and posting bile on Facebook 

 Students are over educated 

The poor are lazy they ll tax me for their benefits 

Liberals have a bleeding hearts and need to silenced 

Intellectuals do nt live in the real world 

We got though the war did nt we ?

 

 

 Kindness and civility  as rare and tender as a snowflake hidden in the morning mist

Wake up and except the new reality

Do nt you know the world is a cold hard place 

 

keep calm and carry on 

The economic needs are more important than the air that you breath 

Young girls who want to save the planet , only want to get on the cover of time magazine

Do nt you know they chop down trees to make magazines ?  

 

I am a holy consumer I only share the party line or ironic memes of defeat 

As constant confusion is conditioned you forget dreams of construction  

 

What does it mean ? 

What is a meme ? 

A culturally transmitted idea 

Much like a gene 

But what idea are spread in this new media

This Petra dish of the zeitgeist 

Who's pulling this strings? 

 

This environment is as Darwinian as any other 

Where a Cambridge analytic    carries for more weight than any individual and some memes are more equal than others     

 

Love and care and humanity 

All murdered in plane sight ? 

Put to death for the greater good 

The individual must be sacrificed 

Your autonomy is not your own you are state property and the name for state property is slave