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We don't live in the real world anymore. 
We don't feel real feelings anymore. 

We're brainwashed and handled, 
        herded and controlled. 
Made to behave as sheeple, 
and to think as a group. 

We do not talk to each other anymore. 
We watch television together. 
Sitting in darkened rooms 
glaring at the screen. 

And we need bigger screens! 
 Wall sized escape pods that 
   we make the centre of our rooms. 

Watching 'reality shows'. 
(Reality as manufactured 
        for us by the television networks.) 
We are consumed with trivia 
    concerning celebrities. 

We want to know about their lives, their loves, 
       their fights and their drugs. 
Like vicarious vultures we cling 
  to every tidbit of information 
        our master the TV provides. 

This one likes pudding, the other one 
likes pie. This one is divorcing, 
the other one is a homosexual. 

Our conversations have become 
 gossip sessions about people 
     we do not even personally know. 

Groups of sheeple we are. 
Content to be guided in all our thoughts. 

Watching the make-believe people 
live their propaganda lives. 

We do not live ourselves, of course. 

We do not talk to each other. 
We talk at each other. 

We're brainwashed and handled, 
        herded and controlled. 
Made to behave as sheeple, 
and to think as a group.