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Poetry is often lost on me, but Mark Nowak’s work cuts right to my heart. from “. . . Again” By Mark Nowak We walked toward the zenith not expecting a new rising sun, but satisfied with the Cheese Whiz, Zebra Cakes, and Zingers at the end of the aisle at Family Dollar. Maybe eat
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By Mark Nowak Encyclopedias and empires go extinct. Eternity isn’t an option. Enjoy the evanescent moon before it evaporates into another eerie dawn, eerie day. Shuttered used car lot across the street from Wastequip headquarters sells eggs for $3 a dozen and flies a Blue Lives Matter flag. It’s the ecosystem nowadays. The Anthropocene. Chickens
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Wisdom in our modern world may boil down to recognizing that LOL and fail and trashy and OMG don’t actually represent different categories of human experience. Current culture kicks up ambivalence and regret. We mask our dread with peanut brittle and daiquiris.
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If you are not careful the media will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. -Malcolm X
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When we are fooled into believing the battle over information is, in fact, a battle over our reality, we have already lost the war Today, “communications” is the science of influence. Mass communication is the study of how governments and corporations can control their populations and customers. Information and big data are the modern sciences
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A steady diet of lies feeds a growing public hysteria. We are conditioned to fear and this fear feeds on itself until we are ready to go to war and give up our basic rights all in the name of safety from some imaginary threat.