Chapter 4: The Obliteration of Exoticism

The absence of the category of the exotic from the collective 21st-century imagination is, according to some authorities, the key difference between the new Wasteland and the one described by Eliot.

Da Da Da

Big Brother isn't watching you.
You're watching him.

He is doing the police in different voices
on over 100 channels
24 hours a day.

It's a minor quibble
that the still shots
and slow-motion scenes
all come from the same never-ending song and dance.

Author's Note

Arthur C. Clarke once remarked, "I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."