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Alam ko ay konting..: Napakatahimik. Marilag!

Just enough words and the: Just enough words and the right words. It's precious and perfect. 

Disturbingly fascinating: I wish to play a (sort of) devil's advocate here:   Is it possible that the poor working conditions and low pay led to increases in violence, rather than the butchering of animals? Or perhaps, a bit of both?   We know that poverty is connected to increases in community crime. We also know that abuse can create violence, in turn. Such working conditions as low wage workers have often been faced with in factories could certainly be regarded as abuse.   Just offering some possible alternate partial or full explanations. Not that it isn't reasonable, when thinking about this, to imagine that someone who was involved in killing hundreds of kangaroos (or other slaughterhouse animals) a year, getting practiced and desensitized in using a weapon, might become more violent. Historically, when killing for food, a participant might only successfully hunt several wild beasts a year, if that. In many societies, even agrarian ones with domesticated animals, the number might even have been lower. And, in many cultures, there was a ritualistic prayer or other symbolic gesture related to understanding the sacrifice involved, that often prevented it from becoming mindless violence.   p/s no shock that Nike is involved.

Nice rhyming scheme.: There's similarities in this little poem between the rhyming scheme and how a chord arrangement might lead to the hook in a song. I find it pretty interesting.

I like it: u have some talent girl

Nations have long memories: Oh, yes, they do. And we are keeping those memories fresh with every drone strike on the people of Somalia. We don't want resolution, but rather for the tin pot dictators of our choice to keep control. Colonialism ended in Africa, but only on paper. The nations left, so we could claim self-righteousness, but the corporations stayed behind and that's where the real control is (see: Elon Musk's inherited emerald mines in South Africa for one particular example, and Pat Robertson's corporate diamond and gold mines in the Congo and attempted ones in Liberia, for another). As a bonus, most of the countries were handed over to dictatorial governments who could be more openly vicious and enact slave labor, something that was going to be increasingly difficult for colonial governments to do post-WW2, especially in a more literate western world, with advancing communications technologies. So it was a win for propaganda, and a win for profits, as it is less costly to let tin pot dictators handle the enforcement of slave mining camps and "running" a country than for colonial governments to do it.   "Peace is a big word but so is starvation"   Great lines. Not many wiser have been etched. Hammer right on the nail. One could even posit that starvation - if history is proof of anything - is both literally and figuratively an even bigger word than peace. Rising crime in the increasingly food insecure USA is even proof of that (but they'll say we just need more police, of course).