A relaxing grey with splashing green
I love the use of color to engage the reader and begin to paint the setting that will absorb them into the piece and deliver further impact later on.
I also paints a false sense of peacefulness, lures the reader into a false complacency, which one can argue is also a role of mass media conglomerates, a point that is quickly highlighted.
To listen to the daily scream...
Is a brilliantly evocative way to put it. It reaches a boil and spills out in waves, identified here as the violence and bureaucracy in the brilliant wordplay that composed this striking couplet:
Cycles of what violence lurks
An endless chain of Circle Jerks
The seemingly goal of this media, to cause confusion and lead its consumer into an apathetic state, is presented in my favorite line:
This and that and up and down
as it so brilliantly highlights the disorienting process.
All of this is wonderfully framed by the Clockwork Orange allusion, a piece that dwells much and more on the brainwashing process that is mass media and its ability to corrupt, distort and twist.
All in all, a great evocative piece and fun read @battleaxe. I appreciated it ending on a question, a seeming call to action to the reader to identify these pieces in their lives and evaluate which are most harmful and where to focus efforts.
It's a questions for everyone, especially in the states these day, really enjoyed the read; thank you so much for the share.