Media Mania

Media mania floods our screens with state certified hysteria. Pushing panic to the top so it can reach the most vulnerable area Every day I open my phone I’m faced with something scarier They’re raising me for slaughter, grown to pick, agraria. This burial of free thought is scarier than we thought Cause they’re teaching us to think not, trying to make us all hot Under the collar and my mom says It’s just making my brain rot And she might be right, I get caught Up in this tangled knotted around all my problems I can’t see past my damned phone screen. Every day it’s harder to reach the people around me I thought it was supposed to be easier with all of this social technology, but all these fears and problems just keep piling up on me. Trying to keep us hooked, Taking advantage of our fears Maybe I need to take some time to myself? Read a book, close my ears DON’T STOP, the algorithm says listen! Cause this “alpha male” says women belong kitchen And this famous artists ex boyfriend is dissin And every word I say gives them more ammunition Look I don’t care! I just wanna let the world keep spinning! Spinning? Our world is frying and people are crying, and animals and dying even ones we don’t reap but WAIT! Don’t go to sleep, I know you want to just keep sinking deep Down further in the rabbit hole, no escape in sight, protesters and rallies and least someone’s trying to fight but even though they’re trying to shed a light, instead it’s making guilt that’s eating me alive GOOD! That guilt will keep you here, don’t go outside, here’s another thing to fear. We’ll keep you locked up, your own mind is a jail If they keep us all separated Of course we’re going to fail They wriggle inside our minds, Feast on our insides like Taenia. But I’m so tired, it’s so easy to sink Down into this media mania.