(We Can Get) No Satisfaction.

Inner society running outer culture
By unkindness, market forces mascot "Huggy
The Market Bear" onto a populace not sure,

For all the advertised "Sell Out! You Must!", for we
Is a strong force, individually speaking, just
As the individual divided against

Themselves must fall, as fabled Satan fell, in trust
Of his self to survive division into host
And master, naming himself "legion" where in fact,
If anything, master of deception had been
Unmastered of deception which in the end lacked

Sustainability, his names legion, obscene
The lack of variety substantiated
Thereby, and quality deteriorated,
Quantifiably overrated, downfall slated,
Huggy Bear berated for fuzzy logick sated.

Author notes

1: "Finding You" – The Go-Betweens.
2: "Downfall" – Cinema Goers' Nazi delight.
3: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – The Rolling Stones.
0: Sonnet Shakespearean, of dodecasyllabic verse twelve syllables instead of the usual ten), with two line terminal of trodecasyllables.
4: "The Good News Bible", Old Testament qv.
5: "fuzzy logic" – akin to "the number of angels capable of dancing on the head of a pin", but concerns itself with the number of hairs that may grow upon a mole.
6: In the author's youth, c.1975 – 1985, those in the surround about him, were noticeably bombarded with propaganda, or "encouragement", to "sell out", viz: to acknowledge themselves helpless in the face of back-stabbing neighbours, the logic along the lines of
"if you do not, your neighbour shall; if your neighbour should not, then we may just level the neighbourhood in which you both live". "Greed beyond need", a la T.Wolfe with his "Bonfire of the Vanities." and the "Decade of Greed", is become now, of course disputatiously, accepted wisdom, to the point where the answer to a question "Every man
has his price, true or false?" comes along the lines of "False: it is others who buy them".