Forum Post: Predatory Republic

Predatory Republic

We are part of a system that requires a victim, to flourish to stand up, our feet will crush the poor and those poor must yield to the boot we step up, lives of the lost are lost more

Our pride in the past, a reflection on the greatest but now the need is other & changed instead of more, make the most of of what there is, transform

Is there ever a time it is not relevant to say that my auto, food and shoes are auspicious marks of comfort and common health, and of the excess
from a toll taken, sometimes by intent

Know that the children, women and men in the distant are akin, although unseen do they need to stand next to us, to register somehow so we can to relate to them

It is the seven sins that drive desire beyond necessity spin them so they fulfill the greater deed that is, stand all the people together so when some gain, no one bleeds

The Old Guard

If you are inclined to believe these ideals are impractical recall many Kings ensconced in tactics that rode the backs of the enfeebled & lacking fairness and sense had no place in their reason reason that was built by justice both blind and deaf

Because of ignorance and whim events large and small transpired not unlike an only child outsized by unfettered greed unrestrained and therefore wild

As wild as in reason dulled by pettiness reason as in to remain on the throne accumulated power refrains from equity it is by its nature a thriving denial

The Change Unseen

Eventually the scales roll back, though the tide turns, the sun will rise a revolution unfolds, in thinking and/or in blood few foundations will survive

Those that do are ready to accept to embrace what hope progress might deliver a powerful promise of easing the pain from the burden of the rundown dream

The New Kings

Often asked, but seldom answered why a teacher ekes by, and with such good intention whilst athlete's strides inspire us by comparison their rewards are lies

And, too, we empathize with the elite and their trite visions of whom are found everywhere for as always their selfish entitlement somehow informs our needs

No target should be more favored, though than the pernicious executive no reward is too great for their efforts and the greatest threat they face is failure only as the long roof will remain

Revolution in pen

Perfection is an ideal suited to the narrow mind it is the nature of humans to inquire more, not less as happiness comes from gain of ground relative to our last progress, or regress

So, shake apart the predatory republic chase away the muddy history recombine the two - Capitalism, Democracy and allow them to settle anew

Geof Erdahl - 2004