Mindset (A Riposte)

Oh Groupthink stinks
It is the rancid sweat
Of the media manipulated
Moribund and mindless mindset

Those who would
Place themselves above
The rest of us for power
And money, never love

Create this mental inertia
They spend their time
Steadily shaping the
Controlling paradigm

Image, message, soundbite
Electronic iconography
Tirelessly assaulting us
With their fear p*rn*gr*phy

Makes decision making
No less than a travesty
For how can we be free to choose
When minds aren't truly free

By daily doses, reinforcement
Douses, like acid rain
Sparks of individuality that
Might light the human brain

Boxed in their putrid pen
The fearful human sheep
Harvest only from their dreams
What their masters let them reap

These poor potatoes sit
Couched in those alpha waves
And vegetate their way
To becoming mental slaves

The mindless mindset
Both moribund and meek
Never living to inherit
The perfect world they seek

While those who would
Dictate what all may think
Laugh fatly up their golden sleeves
Inured from Groupthink's stink