you see, my generation
truly fascinates me.
our narcissistic needs to get
as many eyes to listen in
the voyeuristic nation we
have blindly come to be…
And what we’re faced with daily
is that what is
really isn’t.
we’re drawn to temporary things
yet mourn the loss of vision
we look for instant messages in
mind and body language
without quite understanding that
we’ve passed past definitions.
our dictionaries crawl with
self-edited contradictions
we search these words for windows
to the soul, then think we found them
in societies of literally
nothing
but confessions
archived in our minds,
internalized,
and then accepted
why are we surprised
when little girls look like
grown women?
junior high school students in the stairway
tryna get it
genocide explosion in the hands of
eager nymphets
and street thug kids
with skinny arms
and 90 words per minute
what other choice is given
when they have no narrow structure?
a child’s mind
is not that wide
They grow in stages, fucker.
did we forget
that they don’t get
the concept of adulthood?
so why are we force-feeding them?
they’re CHILDREN. Not just “Younger.”
They should not try and understand
before they’re done absorbing
that’s all they do
their “learning”
is remembering
not forming –
kids are ALWAYS thirsty
yet, we’re catering to hunger.
they’re fucked up little soldiers
just because they don’t KNOW better.
we’re breeding insecurity
to raise manipulators.
Myspace
Facebook
look at me, look at me!
THIS is who I am and this is who I’ll always be
Tell me what you want and I will be it thoroughly
But tell me secretly — I mean, I have a sense of self
(my Self is a conglomerate of everybody else)
we’ve come to trust the digital to
dangerous degrees
released our guard completely but
Why the hell wouldn’t we?
Our citizens confess their deepest thoughts regularly
expose themselves so easily
and quickly, if we’re lucky
anonymously
speak to us with familiarity –
Shouldn’t a network full of them
be fully trustworthy?
But see
The Internet
is not a network anymore
It’s life in different format
but it’s parallel to yours.
Our dating websites? Pixelated bars
populated
with the same people looking to get physically related;
our forums boards are schools of trust that
we participate in,
socialize
develop those “at-school” or “real-life” friendships;
Our search engines: our libraries.
Radio, deliveries,
they’ve found a way to replicate
our luxury and daily state. The difference is
new history: Each person has a story made.
We chronicle our lives
and crystallize
our permanent mistakes
and find ANOTHER way to leave behind
ANOTHER detailed stain
The biggest problem isn’t that
we’re running out of space –
We’re now AWARE
of our own selves
in every single way.
Society now asks us to
reflect that every day.
That’s great for exhibitionists like me,
(textibitionists) who update almost constantly
(I mean — it’s for YOUR sake)…
But what I didn’t see till now was that we’re ALL the same,
and sometime long ago
the separation fell away
We’ve taken what we learned from
all our profile updates and we
applied this new psychology
to REAL LIFE TODAY
And this is why I turn to every friend made
with suspicion:
Our generation
has MASTERED
the
Art
of First
Impressions
It’s not our fault, we’ve only learned
– absorbed –
what we have seen
survival of the fittest, this
is what you know of me
and we approach each other, because inevitably
we’ll run into each other in real life or fantasy,
and by the time we do collide
we’re trained to sense your needs
and edit our own flaws and bold our goods accordingly.
Since we do not quite know just yet
how bad this war will be,
I urge you to prepare yourself with proper weaponry
I cannot yet suggest which sword or pen you should select
but I can let you know which shield
would be the best defense…
I ask that you tread softly with
a sense of wariness.
not run with pure suspicion, but
take heed to sentiments.
It’s not her fault she’s different from
the girl that you first met
it’s not his fault he’s weaker than
you’d come to last expect
Every person living now
in Generation None
has layers — many layers
that take years to come undone
Every time this person lets
their grip slip on their guard
a whole new negative shines through
and hardens with the good
And what you may not realize
is that you do it too
as soon as you begin to trust
you give out something new.
Every time the air between
the two of you should change
you BOTH scramble subconsciously
and BOTH accommodate.
Do you see the
Catch-22?
what you must do
is understand
that people now TAKE TIME
to thoroughly reveal themselves
and trust from the INSIDE.
Don’t think you’re being lied to,
We’re not manipulators
we’ve simply fallen victim to
this new-age human nature
A self-defense response to our
insecurities, but
our own misunderstanding
asks the cycle to repeat…
