on people and the masks they wear

do people still wear masks?
the kind that make you seem
better than you are, i mean.
perhaps we’ve moved past that
point in our history. or maybe we just
call them filters now. it makes me
think of the jetsons. perhaps you’re
too young to remember them. it was
a cartoon set in the not too far
future; a mid-century modernist view
of how the world would be. they call it
retro-futurist now, but anyways.
they had vid-phones that showed you
a video feed on a tv screen in real time
of the person you were talking to,
which has its pitfalls, of course.
but where there’s a need there’s a
way to fill it, so in this world a