Collective ADHD

I watched

         As the two year old boy

            Started to slam his mom's cell phone against his head.

He must've hit himself four or five times, hard as hell.

    Then he balled up a fist,

And punched the phone five or six times.

    The video he was watching must've froze or something.

And,

A few weeks ago,

     One of my friends asked me if I was scared of technology,

And I flat out told her that I wasn’t. 

    I said that I think where tech is heading is exciting. 

But,

    After watching that kid do that,

Maybe I should be afraid. 

     It is changing us in ways we don't understand. 

I heard the crowd agree that as a society we have ADHD. 

  Our over-stimulated minds are stuck in time. 

As a society, 

       we collectively 

                  have ADHD.

We aren't even aware

That we are too distracted to care.

Billionaires could take control of our government

Fire's could burn L.A.

Hawaii could burn

Hurricanes could rage

School shooters could go crazy

The ocean's could become toxic sludge

Diddy could blackmail all of hip hop

Drones could patrol the sky's

A man-made virus could spread across the globe

Aliens could come down and say hi to us

Artificial Intelligence could control all the information we have access too

World War 3 could be right outside of our window

But

None of us

Would have the capacity

To care.

That's what collective ADHD does.

We are too over-stimulated to change the world.

We will never have a revolution.

We lack empathy

Our biggest enemy

Is our screens.

This is what collective ADHD means . . .

CH 1/21/25