The Changing Consensus Trance

One reason we live in a trance

Is to ignore our low social stance,

To not see the borders

Of our pecking orders,
To not even give that a glance.

But in times of great social change,

We enlarge our insightful range;

The way we now live

Is beginning to give,

And starting to look somewhat strange.

We don’t know our rank will advance

When the new world the old one supplants;

The new chain of command

Might not be what we planned

In the new-formed consensus trance.