mass culture     is designed      for       complacency [               ];
the Great Depression of the 30's ended the Roaring 20's;
as radio brought WWII & TV Vietnam into homes
where easy-chairs & TV dinners reigned in cartoon
silence; Bud sneaks off to the garage to smoke bud,
when the innocent stoner gets a draft card,
turning radical, Bud grows his hair long &
giving the ******* to some,  peace
sign to others  [decades go by when hideous was fashionable];
                 9/11 breaking our post-grunge
neo-70's-80's haze [for what, like a week - - -
                then came the hoax of Islamophobia
       spreading paranoia & nervousness in case
the terrorists missed anyone;                 the 90's
were already                 nostalgia by the time of the invasion
of Iraq; mass culture is designed for sedentary complacency
but when society is in upheaval
the media just has to wait
until it's all over to start promoting expensive baubles again - - -