First, "They carved hollow gods from trophies and pixels." What I’m saying here is, people started creating new “gods”—but not gods of meaning, wisdom, or wonder. No, they built them out of trophies (achievements, status symbols) and pixels (screens, digital life, fake perfection online). These new idols are shallow. They don’t nourish you. They’re empty inside.

Then, "Worshipped mirrors, not stars." This one’s about how, instead of looking up at the vastness of the universe—the stars, the mysteries, the bigger questions—people got obsessed with themselves: their image, their brand, their reflection. It’s like they stopped dreaming outward and upward, and got stuck admiring their own surface.

Next, "Distraction was the altar." Here, I’m saying that distraction itself became sacred. The endless scrolling, the constant buzz of new things, the dopamine hits—that’s where people put their energy, their attention, their devotion. It became a religion, but a hollow one.

And finally, "And they sacrificed everything to kneel there." Here’s where it lands hard: all the important stuff—time, love, purpose, connection, even health—got thrown into the fire. People gave up everything real just to stay distracted, to keep feeding the machine, to keep kneeling at the altar of noise and vanity.

So yeah, this whole piece is me saying: we traded awe and wonder for cheap thrills and shallow worship… and we’re bleeding ourselves dry doing it.