Notes of a Lazy Existentialist

Societal anxiety  Sunken by the true belief Of the brilliant light In obligatory grief Void in the pocket Avoiding the mind Struggling to suppress  The crushing daily grind I mpassively imperceptible Once master of the game Enthralled in chains of avarice Prostrate but acclaimed Keep the rabble respectable With a designer suit and tie Sacrifice your children At the alter of their lie Daily twitter outrage Murdoch’s apportioning blame Isolation’s trending And Facebook is aflame Trenches dug by media thugs Battle lines are drawn For crimes against the felonious state  It's executions at dawn Parliamentary identikit parades The piecemeal offerings The doctor is a woman  But the ice is wearing thin Project fear and tabloid smear Choose ‘Enemies of The State’ While Ghetto Jews haunt the news Foreshadowing the hate With 140 Characters Donald constructs his wall Brick-by-brick, tweet-by-tweet...

This cruel country has driven me down Teased me and lied, Teased me and lied I've only sad stories to tell to this this town My dreams have whithered and died (c) Richard & Linda Thompson

So I've finally done it, taken the plunge and entered that most narcissistic of worlds; the world of internet blogging! "A little late!" i hear you cry,well I've considered writing a blog for a while and always come up against two big problems. Firstly there was the issue of content; Which, on first glance would appear to be the most important thing, however after reading quite a few blogs I've come to realise that it isn't actually as important as first thought! The second, and by far the more important problem of the two, is the question of authenticity. If I can solve the problem of authenticity then the content will follow... Confused? Ok, I'll explain. Authenticity is a term we use in every day life but has become something that has become increasingly harder to achieve as we slide further in to the cyber communities that govern our lives. Authenticity is hard to come by in a world where every facebook page carries a stylised, posed photo and everyo...