In a world where it is normal
for governments to foment synthetic feelings
in it's citizens through their presence in the media
and through the choreographed public actions,
designed to be easy for citizens to mimic and repeat,
we should be no more surprised
when a member of the government dies
and we don't feel grief, we don't feel anything,
even as we predict being told to display grief with conviction.
We did not feel joy when the state taught us to display joy either,
constructs that outlast human life have no human life in them.
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