Dyslexic Dystopia

Psychological disorder characterized by the incorrectly-distorted perception of our shared HappilyEverAfter

Things never really looked right to me but experts showed I always twisted stuff up and out of order

I guess I grasped events somewhat differently than what executives marketed as the actual reality

They told me that I pulled facts out of context and then got them turned around inside my head

I maybe was really smart but it was hard to tell since I was always scuttling off somewheres sideways

I saw corporate elders as furtive, shortsighted, self-centered sociopaths not as wise and honest sages

It seemed like the media was made for advertising with a few second thought interruptions thrown in

Elected officials appeared to act solely for a vile self-aggrandizement and re-election, not for voters

I even thought arms makers commissioned boogeyman-mongerers to channel vast sums to themselves

Never got how venal consumer spending and real estate gambling could sustain any real economy

The word of god came to me as a cynical pyramid scam, not the one true way to eternal paradise

Somewhere in my mind I conflated this wack expensive CO2 hoax with a reasoned working hypothesis

To me, flag burning, abortion, gay marriage and creationism just weren’t the most important issues

Evil saw as live, dog was god, sacred was scared and our patriotic burgers taste like tortured remains

Cravenly, I twisted their purest private dialogues with personal saviors into pagan comedy routines

Preposterously, Traditional Family Values™ felt like another recently ginned-up ad campaign to me

My warped prism showed industry self-regulation as a cynical coverup for smash-and-grab capitalism

I even mistook the ignored collateral damage of our divinely-ordained progress for a mass extinction

The distorted lens of my condition wrongly showed a vast human overpopulation, heading for a crash

I thought our spoiled and ignorant children’s pre-mortgaged futures did not look brighter than ours

I imagined costs for good air, clean water and healthy forests where, by capitalist right, none existed

I viewed most of our useless noise as a pitiful attempt to hide from the threateningly-frightful silence

Why, I even found ATVs, snowmobiles and jetskis to be obesely-wasteful, mindless and destructive

I actually deluded myself into wackly believing that if all men were created equal so were all species

I vainly wasted worry on non-issues of soil erosion, habitat destruction, fouled water and polluted air

A tiny minority shared a few of my delusions but the sane hewed to a slick, mass-market gospel truth

Quite revealingly, I even found tiny, efficient vehicles to be comfortable and a real pleasure to own

My bizarre perceptions actually led me to stray from home equity and credit card lifestyle financing

I had this nasty illusion that any new energy source was jointly sabotaged by the media for Big Oil

Contrary to common sense, I did not believe faceless multinational globalization was our salvation

This condition left me unable to swallow the dogma of clergymen, politicians or their talking heads

My twisted sensations morphed dignified religious figures into irrelevant cartoon charlatans

I even found myself believing we should preserve habitats and maintain our waters clean and alive

Unlike the truly patriotic, I couldn’t flaunt a loud and aggressive pride in my illiteracy and ignorance

I had no blind faith in our ability to control the emergent complexity of our spasmodic enterprises

Despite all evidence I concluded that anger, hatred and violence should not remain our natural state

Due to my malady, I thought we rapidly earned everlasting oblivion instead of some eternal paradise