Withdrawal
The great cultural experiment
begins
Can we survive without sporting
events
Without plays and movies
Without concerts and rallies
Without lectures and poetry
readings
Without schools and universities
Without gatherings of any kind
We are social creatures
We exult in vicarious victories
We mourn vicarious defeat
We exist by watching others
watching ourselves
We affirm our humanity by observing
others
reflecting our place in the world
Who are we without circles of
society?
Can we satisfy our needs through
social media and virtual reality?
We have begun our lives as
experimental
subjects crash test dummies
laboratory rats
like Pavlov’s dogs
We have become raw data to be
processed dissected and analyzed
We are withdrawing cold turkey
from our addictions and some of us
will not get out alive
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