Socialist Sonnet No.169

Plato’s Cave Update

(Don’t Turn Off Your Device)

 

On the rear wall of Plato’s cave these days

Is mounted a LG OLED evo screen,

Best Quantum Matrix Technology seen

So far. And twenty-four-seven there plays

Corporate sport of all national flavours,

To fascinate those wearing the favours.

Wars and disasters, the various ways

People can be filmed dying, through a haze

Of smoke and dust. All too much? Flick between

Channels, no need to fret as the world’s been

Hermetically sealed behind glass, our gaze

Misdirected so our view never wavers.

Unless viewers wrest control of what occurs

They will remain simply passive voyeurs.

 

D. A.