Government By And For The One Percent

One of the less accounted for effects
of billionaire public speakers who project
that their wealth is what gives them the right to speak
on behalf of the great mass of much poorer people,
is that they fail to realise that their wealth is also
what gives them a tin ear for how ordinary folks think.

Still, when their wealth is what buys them
their place in the present day high-gloss media
then where better to go to have their tin ears appeased
and tickled with deferential soft-ball questions?

That is when to ration our exposure to modern media,
ordinary people that we are, and save our attention spans
for something with grit and intelligence about it,
never mind that it might make us unpopular.