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PASSIVE RESISTANCE
Fire off one liners
keep the crowd disheveled
and they’ll keep wanting more
under the mistaken notion
of one day getting it
3-29-06
Fire off one liners
keep the crowd disheveled
and they’ll keep wanting more
under the mistaken notion
of one day getting it
3-29-06
George, how much do you think
George, how much do you think people are driven by the mistaken notion of one day getting more, versus the primal drive of wanting to win (even if they the "win" is nothing more than bragging rights on the way to a shared demise)?
People are motivated by
People are motivated by desires to win battles that exist only in their own mind. They always want more because they fill themselves up with a lot of food that lacks substance.
I would offer this expansion
I would offer this expansion on your take: Battles that exist in a certain collective mind. That's the tribal element, wouldn't you agree? The need to feed, also, the desire to be connected, how ever that connection comes - even to the extend, in some instances, of a shared bloodlust. I think this is, in no small part, why it's easy to observe one political faction rail against a certain behavior by their perceived opponent, till "their side" does/supports it. If the desire to win to feed a certain emptiness was based on individual desires, it seems to me that such sudden hypocritical shifts would be far less frequent, to perhaps very rare.
Anyhow, in times of great disconnection, this pathos should grow (which I believe we witness today across our society in many different forms and clusters).
Wow, I'm flattered. That's
Wow, I'm flattered. That's an awful lot of thought on a 32 syllable poem. I try to avoid collective mind even if it is ineviable. Of course, we do have to realize that we are part of a larger world community and it makes sense for us to eventually learn to live and work together.