The Greta Thunbergs of the world --
lisping Stakhanovs – teleprompt
from script to script to sell Big Lies,
green lipstick on EROI.
Civilizations of Big Truths
can grow out of our hearts, I sing,
as trees out of abundant earth.
A loving media would cast
out fear. For perfect love so does.
Most trumpeted emergencies
do not exist as advertised.
Look for the drumbeat bottom-line
and you will find it hidden in
those folds of strident rhetoric,
those sold on every corner lies
which cause enormous suffering.
Look at Iraq! Afghanistan!
They keep on blowing up the Maine.
My people eat deceit like bread.
Watch out for gullibility!
It works, does blowing up the Maine.
It fools them every bloody time.
Such servile gullibility
cannot but burn up liberty.
My people, this is shameful.
Let us cease from gullibility.
Next time they blow the Maine up, laugh
at them until they die of shame,
until they sink into the floor,
until they wither quite away,
or you will have no rights at all
and live abased amid the muck,
enslaved by liars utterly.
They'll surely blow the Maine up soon!
Will you commend yourself a man?
Or will you show yourself a worm?
They'll blow the Maine up, sure enough.
Then there will be another war,
an urgency emergency,
a flimsy pretext to be jerks.
