the news feed

I wake up to check the days news.

Biolabs burn and pollute the air, thick pentachromatic smoke rising into the gray still sky.

I scroll.

Floods ravage homes as instinct leads bears to treetops. Families denied food and supplies by authorities in the chaos.

I scroll.

YouTube creators bicker over the drama of a copycat brand of lunchables, making childish songs about one another.

I scroll.

Children are asked about their ambitions, with glinted eyes all of them reply with money and fame.

I scroll.

Another foreign child dies in the arms of their father. Lost to wars and powers they don’t even understand.

I scroll.

Frustration. We live within this system where we are actively watching everything fall apart, the daily news becomes just another little pastime for the scrolling eyes. We are unphased as death, pollution, destruction, and sadness enters our eyes and our brains at unbelievable pace. 

Is it really a wonder that we can’t see the signs?

A society that would rather hide from these truths. It is uncomfortable to realize we are the ones perpetuating this system. We distance ourselves. Find comfort in complacency and blissful ignorance. The truth nests further and further deep into our consciousness until it is essentially lost.

And so instead we forget and we live happily. 

Dystopia more near than distant fiction