Welcome To The New Fear

For as long as there is a media
there will be talking heads
-people to fill the airwaves
regardless of their ability
to think logically on their feet,
or their lack of it.

What I will not live with,
and makes me turn off the news,
are the shouting heads,
the ignorant rhetoritians
whose main aim is self enrichment
through deliberate inequality.

Their wealth is built
on making rational thought
and good grammar their enemy. 

The Nobel Prize

for Hypocricy could not be awarded this year;
there were too many candidates,
consequently there was too little time
to quantify the negative effects their words
compared with what their deeds underachieved
for everyone except themselves and their familiars.

The Pen vs The Gun

When our choice of society
lies between overt feudal control
of the many by the very few-
reinforced by violence and taboo-
or a bureaucracy which kills
it's dependents, but more slowly,
and from the inside out,
for it being incompetent,
then our biggest choice
is how long we take to die,
-with the second choice
being how many we kill,
quietly and unknowingly,
on our way to the grave.