Poetry and Politics - a few mixed verses
The Reductionist Tendency for Sloth and Stupidity
This is not just plain old evil. It’s the route to power and the road to slothdom, the road most frequently traveled, by the largest sector of society. The Romans called it “Bread and Circuses.” Which meant; keeping people entertained—with a helping of food in their bellies—and, if you can do that, they’ll damn-well go along with just about anything.
You can never just come out and say this, however, because it’s insulting. So, you save your insults for the opposition, whom you belittle like putrid trolls living under a bridge. You ridicule them relentlessly, thereby giving your followers a target for their innate, virulent hatred, which is really self-loathing, projected onto their fellow man. Only the thickness of their heads, makes it possible for knowledge to bounce off their skulls, like bullets bouncing off Superman. They are as impervious to truth and justice, as they are to wisdom, beauty and a catchy melody, wedded to an odd time signature.
Where does the sloth retreat to, when under attack?
To mommy and daddy. To big ole uncle Sammy, who is either a war loving troglodyte, or a pansy of the first order. This last sentence is sufficient ground for bloodshed. So touchy have people become, that even the slightest insult, compels them to dawn masks, and dress like ninjas. These are not ninja’s, though. They are less Davy Crockett and more like Davy Cuckold, if truth be known—and who among us knows the truth? No one can tell. Because all are equally corrupt, and equally blind to the truth. So we can only grope, collectively, probably in the wrong direction, but even that we applaud, thereby leaving no child behind. And, once everyone is behind, no one is behind. Meaning; there is no behind, only hunger, ruthless corruption of the soul, and endless want. But no one is behind, and that is something.
This is not just plain old evil. It’s the route to power and the road to slothdom, the road most frequently traveled, by the largest sector of society. The Romans called it “Bread and Circuses.” Which meant; keeping people entertained—with a helping of food in their bellies—and, if you can do that, they’ll damn-well go along with just about anything.
You can never just come out and say this, however, because it’s insulting. So, you save your insults for the opposition, whom you belittle like putrid trolls living under a bridge. You ridicule them relentlessly, thereby giving your followers a target for their innate, virulent hatred, which is really self-loathing, projected onto their fellow man. Only the thickness of their heads, makes it possible for knowledge to bounce off their skulls, like bullets bouncing off Superman. They are as impervious to truth and justice, as they are to wisdom, beauty and a catchy melody, wedded to an odd time signature.
Where does the sloth retreat to, when under attack?
To mommy and daddy. To big ole uncle Sammy, who is either a war loving troglodyte, or a pansy of the first order. This last sentence is sufficient ground for bloodshed. So touchy have people become, that even the slightest insult, compels them to dawn masks, and dress like ninjas. These are not ninja’s, though. They are less Davy Crockett and more like Davy Cuckold, if truth be known—and who among us knows the truth? No one can tell. Because all are equally corrupt, and equally blind to the truth. So we can only grope, collectively, probably in the wrong direction, but even that we applaud, thereby leaving no child behind. And, once everyone is behind, no one is behind. Meaning; there is no behind, only hunger, ruthless corruption of the soul, and endless want. But no one is behind, and that is something.
All Those Jews
Look at any map of the Middle East, and what do you see, but Jews, Jews, and more Jews. What’s missing from this map? Palestinians. Even worse, there are barely any Muslims in the Middle East, because the Jews are too powerful. There mus be at least five, maybe six million Jews crowding out poor Muslims, who are a majority in only 50 Middle Eastern countries. How will a meager
317 million Muslims, throughout the region, survive the onslaught of Israel’s 6 million Jews.
Plus, the worlds Jewish population is growing and has reached nearly fourteen million, compared to the 1.6 billion Muslims. Clearly a bloodbath awaits, as the Jews amass their numbers. The fact that there is not now, nor has there ever been a Palestinian people, should trouble those who support Israel as the only real democracy in the region. I mean, how can we, the people of good conscience, allow a Jewish home on a piece of land 1/3 smaller than the state of New Jersey, when Muslims control absolutely everything else from The Middle East to North Africa and beyond.
If this sounds ridiculous, it is typical of a media narrative that isn’t much different. Pick a controversial topic—and, if enough power and money are at stake, you’ll find a similar, Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole logic at work.
Believe nothing, without challenging what’s being said. This isn’t high school. The media aren’t the cool kids. They are the dorks. Only, these dorks have power, I mean real power, to control what you see and hear.
Look at any map of the Middle East, and what do you see, but Jews, Jews, and more Jews. What’s missing from this map? Palestinians. Even worse, there are barely any Muslims in the Middle East, because the Jews are too powerful. There mus be at least five, maybe six million Jews crowding out poor Muslims, who are a majority in only 50 Middle Eastern countries. How will a meager
317 million Muslims, throughout the region, survive the onslaught of Israel’s 6 million Jews.
Plus, the worlds Jewish population is growing and has reached nearly fourteen million, compared to the 1.6 billion Muslims. Clearly a bloodbath awaits, as the Jews amass their numbers. The fact that there is not now, nor has there ever been a Palestinian people, should trouble those who support Israel as the only real democracy in the region. I mean, how can we, the people of good conscience, allow a Jewish home on a piece of land 1/3 smaller than the state of New Jersey, when Muslims control absolutely everything else from The Middle East to North Africa and beyond.
If this sounds ridiculous, it is typical of a media narrative that isn’t much different. Pick a controversial topic—and, if enough power and money are at stake, you’ll find a similar, Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole logic at work.
Believe nothing, without challenging what’s being said. This isn’t high school. The media aren’t the cool kids. They are the dorks. Only, these dorks have power, I mean real power, to control what you see and hear.
Like Hell I Will
Push anyone far enough, often enough, and they will rebel. Keep pushing them, and watch what happens. Somewhere in American life, politicians got the idea, they were in charge. Not the people. So, politicians pushed, and pushed. Prodding like a spoiled child, who no longer respected their parents.
They’re still pushing. In fact, harder than ever.
After eight years, politicians tell us that we just have to get used to this new reality.
Why?
We have to get used to the idea that men aren’t really men, and woman aren’t really women anymore, just in case one person in a thousand feels otherwise. Tolerance, under such circumstances, means that the one, gets to tell the other thousand, what normal is. And don’t complain, or you’ll be bullied relentlessly. You’ll be destroyed, sued into poverty, often by your own government. Because the government cares.
Not about you, but about somebody.
If you do something as innocuous as state what has been obvious to all people, since before the beginning of recorded history, before written language—such as, men are men and woman are woman—things that even animals understand, you’ll be called a liar and a hater.
That is what’s happened in the blink of an eye.
Meanwhile, the media lie and distort history. They distort universally accepted truths. They even daily rewrite reality, so it will coincide with whatever new myths they’ve created, in the name of fairness.
Deny reality, and believe in this new political agenda instead, is the message.
In the new reality, objectivity doesn’t exist. Safe spaces substitute for free speech. Speech codes, self imposed segregation based on race, religion, politics, gender identity and sexual preference—they are the new America—to go along with beheadings and mass murders, which are done in the name of the new religion in town. But don’t complain, you bigot, you, with your old-school Christianity, and your old fashioned values, just shut up!
Like hell I will.
Claude Hopper
Push anyone far enough, often enough, and they will rebel. Keep pushing them, and watch what happens. Somewhere in American life, politicians got the idea, they were in charge. Not the people. So, politicians pushed, and pushed. Prodding like a spoiled child, who no longer respected their parents.
They’re still pushing. In fact, harder than ever.
After eight years, politicians tell us that we just have to get used to this new reality.
Why?
We have to get used to the idea that men aren’t really men, and woman aren’t really women anymore, just in case one person in a thousand feels otherwise. Tolerance, under such circumstances, means that the one, gets to tell the other thousand, what normal is. And don’t complain, or you’ll be bullied relentlessly. You’ll be destroyed, sued into poverty, often by your own government. Because the government cares.
Not about you, but about somebody.
If you do something as innocuous as state what has been obvious to all people, since before the beginning of recorded history, before written language—such as, men are men and woman are woman—things that even animals understand, you’ll be called a liar and a hater.
That is what’s happened in the blink of an eye.
Meanwhile, the media lie and distort history. They distort universally accepted truths. They even daily rewrite reality, so it will coincide with whatever new myths they’ve created, in the name of fairness.
Deny reality, and believe in this new political agenda instead, is the message.
In the new reality, objectivity doesn’t exist. Safe spaces substitute for free speech. Speech codes, self imposed segregation based on race, religion, politics, gender identity and sexual preference—they are the new America—to go along with beheadings and mass murders, which are done in the name of the new religion in town. But don’t complain, you bigot, you, with your old-school Christianity, and your old fashioned values, just shut up!
Like hell I will.
Claude Hopper