Thus Passes The Glory Of The World....

In the wealthy 'democratic' West our democracy
depends on three lies that we repeat ad nauseam
1-put rubbish in the bins for weekly collection 
2-give something away to a charity/thrift shop,
or 3-place an item in an auction house for sale. 

The first lie is that the employees
at the place we leave what we don't want
are well paid to recycle what we leave them.

The second lie comes from that next stage
-be it charity shop, council tip, or auction house,
where we expect there to be some extractable good
of commercial value left in what we leave for upcycling. 

The third lie is the biggest, which is that
whatever raw material we process,
whatever we pass on, it loses 99.99%
of it's redeemable value in how it is prepared for us
-thus giving rise to the infinitely recycled lie
that as humans we are not the species that overran the earth,
and we are not the engine of the sixth extinction of all species
via how we lay waste to the planet's eco-systems,
for our seeing where we live as 'raw materials', ripe for destruction.