The Poet's Eye
commentary by Lightning Rod
The Poets' Eye is skeptical without being cynical, innocent without being naive and critical without being judgemental.
Fiddler on the Roof03-26-04
Notice to the American People:
Your current government does not protect you or represent you. That's as simple as I can put it.
Your current government is a useless burden on your lives. It makes laws to favor its wealthy clients. It scrimps on your schools and healthcare in favor of military adventures that only serve the interests of a few fat-cat corporations.
Your current government lies and tries to confuse you with meaningless issues while they daily steal from you on behalf of their owners.
Your current government wants you to live in fear and has restructured itself in order to more effectively keep you at a high state of alert. Their job is to invent new threats and fund studies that create new diseases.
Your current government thinks you are too stupid to see through the games that they are playing. They are confident that given enough repetition and enough money for advertising and enough flag-draped spin and god talk, they will beguile you into letting them put a meter on every breath you take.
Your current government wants to close my mouth and the mouth of every other comedian who seeks to expose their greed and their swindles.
Your current government thinks you will go for anything. The world stands outraged. They see us as pampered and gullable and decadent. We are more interested in American Idol than we are in bombings in Madrid or Jerusalem. The world covets our lifestyle and at the same time sees it as shallow and self-indulgent.
Your current government is manufacturing the terrorists that they warn you about. The incursions in Afghanistan and Iraq have served no purpose but to create a bonanza for a few selected corporations (pipeline right of ways and 'rebuilding' and oilfield services) and to inspire no telling how many middle eastern teenagers to choose jihad as their career.
Your current government is creating the threat from which it claims to protect you.
Your current government is like Caligula on Crack. Nerf Neros. Mad Fiddlers.
The Poet's Eye sees that Rome is burning in the flames of its own arrogance. The smirk on the face of the Emperor should tell you something.
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