I scuttle out of the waves like a hermit crab seeking a fresh shell. The tide is rising, and I loathe what’s coming.
The internet is proving to be one massive ocean of teeming ignorance, its hungry waves eroding whatever sense and restraint my country ever had. The world laughs at our politics, a cheap circus sideshow. Powered by the lowest forms of human life, the social media Lie Engine has replaced journalism with empty spectacle and dangerous nonsense.
The middle class ebbs away in the final days of the Suburban White Fantasy Empire That Never Was. “You got what you was supposed to get, bluesman! Ain’t nothing ever as good as we want it to be!”
Would anyone like to share some bread and circuses?
126 words, inspired by this week’s FFfAW prompt:
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I… have no idea what to do with this piece. It’s not really fiction, more like my Rant of the Day.
I set out to write fiction, honest!
This is wonderful and reminded me of what is going on in the U.S. Politics has certainly become a circus! Great rant, Dave!
The elections are just a show put on every four years by Texas. Whatever sells guns, drugs and energy is what we will do.
But Jeb has his custom handgun, engraved with “Please clap.”
Great bounce off from the photo. You have captured what I hate. A person surrounded by beauty fixated on a phone.