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The Algorithm has Taken Over
How much can you trust your view of the world? Is what you're seeing any kind of truth?
Scott Cumming doesn't believe in what he is seeing or hearing anymore as Britain limps from one farce to the next with only the echo chamber of social media as a companion. This book of poems displays the disillusionment with modern life and the government and technology that governs it. Do they mean anything or are they another scream speaking truth to the endless void of words mapping our everyday? I guess, only you, dear reader, can decide.
Scott Cumming doesn't believe in what he is seeing or hearing anymore as Britain limps from one farce to the next with only the echo chamber of social media as a companion. This book of poems displays the disillusionment with modern life and the government and technology that governs it. Do they mean anything or are they another scream speaking truth to the endless void of words mapping our everyday? I guess, only you, dear reader, can decide.
40 pages, Paperback
Published February 6, 2023
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February 9, 2023
I always come clean before reviewing Scott’s work, in that he’s my son, so this’ll be a totally biased review !
This is Scott’s third collection of poems and this one took me by surprise as I didn’t realise he had another volume ready for publication. What also took my by surprise was the theme running through this collection which is very much politically themed and may be deemed his writing’s equivalent of the ‘concept album’. Most of the pieces deal with the financial struggles that we, the working classes, face,due to the current financial climate and political agenda in Britain at the moment. But while ‘we’ suffer, millionaires and billionaires profit even more from our suffering, in these times and the lying and corrupt government are de facto enablers of this profiteering. Scott also links this with the drip feed of information/propaganda that we are fed through social media where everything is either black or white and where there appears there is no room for compromise within the divisive arguments. On a slight digression Scott also questions the validity of ‘independence’ within the creative arts and whether true independence actually exists anymore ?
The tone is pretty bleak throughout this volume and there is very little light or humour but it’s obviously something that Scott wants to express and hopefully this will help to ‘cleanse his palette’ so that he can regain his true creative spirit.
This is Scott’s third collection of poems and this one took me by surprise as I didn’t realise he had another volume ready for publication. What also took my by surprise was the theme running through this collection which is very much politically themed and may be deemed his writing’s equivalent of the ‘concept album’. Most of the pieces deal with the financial struggles that we, the working classes, face,due to the current financial climate and political agenda in Britain at the moment. But while ‘we’ suffer, millionaires and billionaires profit even more from our suffering, in these times and the lying and corrupt government are de facto enablers of this profiteering. Scott also links this with the drip feed of information/propaganda that we are fed through social media where everything is either black or white and where there appears there is no room for compromise within the divisive arguments. On a slight digression Scott also questions the validity of ‘independence’ within the creative arts and whether true independence actually exists anymore ?
The tone is pretty bleak throughout this volume and there is very little light or humour but it’s obviously something that Scott wants to express and hopefully this will help to ‘cleanse his palette’ so that he can regain his true creative spirit.
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