A dying breed

The gullible are a dying breed.
There are few who walk along the street
and give money to a bum because
they really believe they can’t find work.
More and more of us want
to find things out for ourselves.
We are further down our spiritual paths
than every other generation before us.
Mental takes precedence over physical,
and physical over material.
Capitalism is our enemy
and we are no longer amused
with our politics.
Whether we have come full circle
or have advanced to a place
we’ve never been before,
no one can say for sure.
But we are on the brink
of another revolution.
Marketing,
fashion,
entertainment,
humor,
music,
they have all advanced.
We perplexed the media
and marketers as youth
and continue to be
a difficult group
to target as adults
and prime consumers.
The sarcastic are admired
over the genuinely sweet.
A place where “keeping it real”
means doing everything
you can to appear “cool”
and impressing anyone
becomes harder
and harder all the time.
Our time is one that picks apart
the politics and the famous
rather than adoring them.