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 Sin

The sin of Adam and Eve was
somehow believing that they owned
the garden they lived in, in their own right
when really they were always guests
paying rent in kind through their labour
of  naming all the animals.

The Father Of Perpetual Infant-asy,

Sigmund Freud, never saw his mother naked,
he merely imagined that he had seen her that way.

When he imagined that he saw his mother
naked he imagined he was aroused by the scene.

What he imagined, for his never actually seeing it,
became a collective fantasy, beyond all counting.

The Bigger The Brain

the bigger the lie,
whether human or computer,
and the more powerful
it's means of transmission.
The more it multiplies.
The harder it becomes
to unpick the lies, later.

Unquiet Surrender

The Fall was Adam and Eve's first act of Creation.

Ever since then men have claimed
that they wanted to return the power
of choice, and the temptation to failure,
back to who they credit as their creator
only to discover how unwilling they were
to subdue their lives, in quiet surrender.