Irreversible Paradigms

It is only since 1990's
that mental health matters
have been 'democratized',
in the wealthy West at least.

A new language about mental health
was devised where the language
is more precise, and it defines
a variety of complex symptoms,
that where they cannot be fixed
they get nearer being manageable.

Many people must have had 
many of these conditions,
growing up in times well before
the new language was coined.

The biggest symptoms
they surely recognised
was that when they read
any national newspaper
that was not a tabloid  
and their brain would not process
the reasoning the newspaper offered,
and that was in the analogue world
where arguments about life
were presented fairly slowly
through movies, television, radio,
and through the national press.

How ironic then, that when 
people could have a diagnosis
for their being slow to reason,
the media they had to rely on
became digital, and sped up.

But good reasoning went no faster
as the new media went ahead.
So the digital media pre-set
becomes the new tabloid-ese
where we cry 'fake news'
when we dislike what we read
or we detect a lack of reason.

We deny that we were always slow to reason,
and not just because of our varying mental health,
not that poor mental health was ever any help,
though improved definitions have improved us.

The fakery remains in us, in how we pretend
that we are the Masters of The Universe
when we refuse to be servants to the seasons
and do our utmost to reverse global warming.