Hive Mind

poem by: John Prophet
Written on Nov 15, 2021

Hive mind.
Seven hours
each day.
On average
people spend
seven
hours
each day
on screen
stare.
Nearly half
of awake
time
on screen
stare.
To what
end?
More anxiety.
More hostility.
More easily
coerced,
controlled.
Fifty
years ago.
People
spent zero
hours
on screen
stare.
To what
end?
Less anxiety.
Less hostility.
Less easily
coerced,
controlled.
Fifty
years
from now
people
will spend
all their
time on
screen
stare.
To what
end?
Complete
lose of
individuality.
Ultimate
control.
Uniformity
of thought.
Hive mind.

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Frank Hornby . commented on May 16, 2022 at 5:50pm

This really is food for thought....what is the outcome?...

Olivia Fletcher commented on May 18, 2024 at 12:49am

I think about this often. We as a society need to spend much less time with screens in our face. Things were so much different even just 10 years ago

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