mediocracy

What is a mediocracy?

A government of the mediocre, the dull, the unenlightened, the uninformed.

You know, real life, where the lesser of two perceived evils gets to pretend to be in control of bloated bureacracies that do little but justify themselves in the name of levelling the playing field so that no one, not the underachiever nor the overachiever, slips through the cracks and makes a difference in any measurable way.

Bread and circuses. Big Macs and MTV. What's the difference? Make sure no one is dissatisfied enough to rebel (or at least in any shape, physically or intellectually, to do so).

Slogans instead of philosophies. The blunt force trauma of sixteen pages of news about local sports in the local newspaper when North Korea has atomic weapons, 6,000 children a day die as a result of poverty and one in every three women is detined to be raped at some point in her life. Millionaire sports figures and musicians are called "heroes", which defiles the memory of those who actually give to make a difference.

We are the walking dead. Welcome to the madhouse.