Caught In A Bubble On A Screen

The fusion of the prosperity gospel,
first formalised by White America of the 1850's,
and the techniques for how to act on television
should surprise nobody
who has the right brain cells to rub together.

With all it's ticks and techniques
television broadcasting itself is proof,
if proof were needed, of prosperity.

But the fusion of television performances,
The Gospels, and being the richest nation on the earth,
has made the world's richest nation shifts the baseline
for how much is enough for it's citizens to live on,
so far above what the rest of the world can ask.

I can't imagine what it is like
to be trapped in this bubble
where you can never have enough
until you turn our television off, for good.

John Wesley is quoted to have said 
'Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can'
to his followers and from the crowds that he drew
he knew what performing was, but still I suspect
that he would have looked askance
as he recognised the detachment
of performing through television.