Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Stand Back and Stand By



These people walking around in normal clothes looking human. Shopping. Driving their cars. Getting gas. Mowing their lawn. Putting out the trash. Making their morning coffee. Raising the cup to their lips as their eyes read the online comments and memes and reviews and snark and alarm.  The place where their heart once beat is filled with that bitter glee of the one who sits at the sideline, never enters the fray, but watches as virtue is beheaded in the colosseum. Their comments sound neighborly and concerned but their posts expose the truth. And even those who tell themselves they're above it all because they refuse to talk about what is happening around us give themselves away with their likes and their emojis and their bitter cackles of joy as decency is beaten and bloodied and drug through the streets and then crucified. And on Sundays they go to church and thank their crucified Jesus on the cross that they are still great and that Trump is on his throne and they beat their chests as they take the host in their mouths and kneel as the choir sings 'God Bless America' while it burns all around them. 




3 comments:

  1. I am hoping that after our demise in the ecological apocalypse that is inevitably headed our way, that the next dominant species will do better than we have.

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    1. How can they, if we leave our legacy to be erased and scrambled bits and bytes on failing technology that is unlikely to survive a large enough magnetic storm, or EMP blasts, or is manipulated into a manufactured revisionist history?
      Maybe we should carve it in stone, like the Emerald Tablets or the Ten Commandments, if we truly wish the next dominant species, or even our descendants, to prosper from the knowledge we have gained, and the wisdom we have earned?
      I am of the opinion you need both, with the Truth, to truly evolve.

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