We build our worlds on circular arguments,
with variations that the longer they continue
the more we get lost in them, until we think
-whether it is provably true to others or not-
that the arguments we accept are those
that most readily centre and calm us.
Tribes rely on it, sometimes justifiably,
for a tribal identity that keeps them alive
in circumscribed tribal circumstances.
Religions are famous for this; doctrines
are drawn from unprovable histories for ideas
that the speaker uses to point us towards altruism,
the better to make the world a kinder place that day,
Meanwhile the circularity
in the contradictory government policy
seek to send us the other way.
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