She really asks a lot
of really stupid questions.
Like that time
when she wanted to know
why big media companies
are often chaired
by the same people
who are on the boards
of big arms companies.
I mean,
who asks that?
Or that other time,
when she asked
why big environmental groups
were led by powerful lawyers
that make millions
from suing energy and industry,
but return little,
if any,
of their huge retainers to the causes
they claim to so stridently fight for.
Really?
You’ve got to be
a little bit wrong in the head
to ask those questions
and actually expect answers.
She might as well be asking
about the existence of aliens,
though I’m sure that would at least
illicit some kind of response,
rather than the glossy eyed
and slack jawed looks
that she gets when she asks
about the death of the family farm
and the unnerving growth of agri-business,
that leave unaccountable,
multi-national conglomerates
more and more in control of food production.
Or, the uncomfortable,
pensive silences that she receives
when she asks why corporate media
sells blocks of space and time
in their publications
and on their broadcasts
to other big multi-national
corporate interests
in a practice known as,
“Sponsored Content”.
As if she can just come out
and ask any old question
that pops into her head
and expect people not to think
she’s at least a little dumb,
well,
that’s beyond me.
Questions like that,
well, they’re just asking for trouble.
Why can’t she be more like the other girls.
No one likes a shit disturber.
HG – 2016
