Serfing the New Fade

the essential existential
question for the thinking
person of the 21st century
is:

do i exist to produce
for society or to consume
for it?

because there is a question
here not easily answered,
because the one goes hand-in-hand
with the other, a forced servitude
without appreciation.

the serf in the New Fade belongs
to a system that ensnares
those without privilege to
a retrograde existence.