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The long night of human history
is drawing at last to
its conclusion.
— Terence McKenna
Look at how politicized
we’ve all become
these days.
Look at the barbed wire
and the needless shit
that surrounds our
unpoetic lives.
Look at the vast idiocy
we see in the cities and
on our screens.
Look at us —
inattentive drudges,
heavy on information yet
starved of intuition and
insight, paralyzed by
irrational fear.
Hardly anyone thinks or feels
outside the group or the party
or the race or the nation
they belong to.
Critical thinking is irreparable
and our readymade opinions
are quite expected
along with the synthetic
desires we hold.
Even the most intelligent minds
among us lean towards conformity —
particularly when their careers
and reputations depend on it.
Institutional compliance
trumps truth-seeking.
Social media algorithms
nurture our biases and
predispositions, managing
our will and amplifying
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This reminds me of a conversation I had with my husband the other day– we were wondering why more people don’t want to take the time to think critically about their own beliefs or biases. We didn’t come up with a good answer, but I enjoyed this poem. Thanks!
Definitely a good reblog, I think. Thank you for reading and commenting. The questions you are asking are endlessly perplexing. To sound quite doomsday, I think we’re in a scary position. I’m not sure what it will take to reverse course. On a positive note, I hope you are well. —Margaret