The Degredations Of Education

When Eve was tempted by the fruit
from the tree of knowledge
Satan's aim was to teach her and Adam
the novelty of built-in obsolescence.

Many teachers in many schools
have been teaching the same lesson
ever since, without admitting it.
What pupils learn makes them obsolete
for employers who want more work
for less pay, and say they deserve better.

The Revolution Will Be Advertised

Raising Awareness

is a phrase used by small l liberals
who say they want to change
the world, but when action
is required to confront taboo
they shrink away, for wanting
to appear to be inclusive, thus
they refuse all confrontation.

Passivity of speech
makes them passive of action,
actively wasting life and choice
by going through motions
in order to change nothing.

Conviction always carries costs,
that sometimes convert into gains.

 
Passivity will always turn cost into loss.

Television

-the medium which claims
to calm it's audience
by fidgeting on their behalf,
without ever leaving them calm.

Atonal Cheap Entertainments

In another depression long ago

Noel Coward quipped about
'the extraordinary potency of cheap music'.
In the present recession, and in preparedness
for the next, I will remain tight lipped
at how recessions normalise
the potency of atonal cheap entertainments.

The Richer The Country

the more opaque it's media will be.
Vested interests will seek respectability
at the expense of integrity
whilst talking down to the voters,
that they claim not to.

The core of Capitalism
is about yoking private vice
with the shrinking ghost of public virtue,
the better to normalise a corrupt future.

Pain For It's Own Sake

The piety of sadism
makes forgiveness
the road less mapped
and less well travelled.

The Acme of Human Evolution and Technological Advance

A Seascape by L.S. Lowry