Sedation

Reality is punishment

This is our medication purgatory

Technology is killing us

There is no escape foolish mortals

Eat me, drink me

Wake up Alice you're in Kansas baby!

Your heart is beating 3000 beats a minute, your hands shake uncontrollably. Turning to social media for a daily fix of fake news your phone falls to the ground. Your curse in coherently, the damn screen is cracked. A pointless exercise, you decide to log on through your laptop instead. The video screen immediately pops up, session recording, you don't remember... The penny drops, you haven't used video sessions in ages. The internet is watching you.

The recording light blinked off immediately, noticing you noticing. You slammed the laptop closed, another invasion of privacy. The repugnant idea motivated you to search and switch off every piece of technology in your home. You felt repelled by all the online connections surrounding you, was the bathroom safe from perverse onlookers?

A thump on your front door, you froze. Another thump.

The note skipped across the floor, gently nudging under the front of your shoe. The message simple, scrawled in what looked like greasy ink:

Your debt owed.

xxx

Modern Interruption

Our attention span is limited to, squirrels...

The modern age is constant interruption, goat on a trampoline...

Ahem, conversions don't exceed 50 words (spoken or written) that I'm surprised we understand each other. 

There must be a glitch in the matrix, glitch in the matrix, cows go moo...

What's more engaging?

Watching wet paint dry, 

Watching the lawn grow,

Watching Windows install,

Insert fart joke here

Hares and tortoises

 Why are people so pushy?

I first thought it's part of the modern progression but technology doesn't demand such immediate interaction. I went looking and, to be perfectly honest nobody is ready for the truth. I'll give up the top three suspects; each have a hand in this criminal syndicate.

Money, Religion, Technology.

Money, like Don Corleone, is everything to everyone everywhere. But do we need money to live?

Religion, the universal control mechanism telling us common sense is unnatural.

Technology, the tools of our imprisonment. Do machines need tell us how to live?

Deep down everyone knows we are the masters over our three (there are four but I have excluded education as a suspect)