The manufacturing consent factory is working overtime while the People looking for work are left standing in line. Faux managers shaping opinions is business largesse but the People paying bills have to manage their stress. To shift this tide we need more community interaction: sharing, bartering, donating ― paying less attention to the media distraction. Where the mind is formed the feet will follow -- break from the mainstream, it'll be one less pill to swallow and your feet on the Earth will find another direction though you might have to give up that four-hour erection. Edward Louis Bernays picked his uncle Freud's pocket made a propaganda science so the People would have to hock it; public relations psyops appealing to mind and emotions keeps the feet in fetters though the skin well-lotioned with anti-aging creams and other such products, hey, i want to look good too but wouldn't sell my bollocks. A more serious side-effect of this heavily-funded persuasion is the pitting of home against foreign nation, always bad-mouthing a distant power as a method to get the People to cower, and they've even outsourced their capitalist opinions with consumerism in China and India for dollared dominions. The manufacturing consent whistle i'd like to hear blow, signaling the end of this mass delusion induced show.

READ MORE OF MANKH'S POEMS AND ESSAYS ON AXIS OF LOGIC Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small press publisher and Turtle Islander. He edited and published the book, The (Un)Occupy Movement: Autonomy of Consciousness, Practical Solutions, Human Equality, and hosts an audio show "Between the Lines: listening to literature online." You can contact him via his literary website.