THE WORLD MAY BE OK

THE WORLD MAY BE OK

by matt burns

Sometimes you wonder about the world

And there’s just thing after thing

After thing after thing

That makes you say we’re all screwed

The world seems so doomed

But when I walk down the street near my house, with my dog

I don’t see much doom and gloom

It all looks OK to me

My entire dark outlook on the world

Has come from TV and the news

It’s the news that paints such a dark depiction

If it was hundreds of years ago

I guess the world could be the same it is today

But there wouldn’t be any news

So I would walk down the street

See the trees blooming in the breeze

And the blue skies with puffy white clouds

And all would be well

The world would be just fine

And that would be the only world I knew

The only difference today

Is the news

Maybe the news is a form of psychological warfare

It exists to make us think the world is doomed

And we fear and loathe

And we get depressed

And we despair

And we get debilitated or even paralyzed

And we don’t do all that much

Because what’s the point?

And then we’re easier to control

And we’re easier to be turned into consumers

More easily turned into human resources

“Yeah, the world’s doomed

So just watch your reality TV

And talent shows

And football games 

Rot your brain

Because if you actually do something

It’s not going to be worth anything anyway”

I guess the wars are out there somewhere

And I guess so aren’t the murders and rapes

And the child molesters

And the thieves

The corrupt politicians

And the bad storms

And all the other indications of the

End

Of

Times

But when I walk down the street 

All is just fine

And that’s my reality

The reality portrayed in the news is constructed

Weaving separate threads of negativity together

To create one quilt of negative reality

But that reality is really just a construction

Not an actual reality

If you remove yourself from the news

And take a walk down your street

Really, the world is kind of OK