Freedom
October 2, 2017 at 3:01 pm Leave a comment
Freedom
Riding from the west, the knights
promise us freedom:
entranced by their shining armor, we
seek this mysterious thing.
Ah, but, later, we discover
swords powerless against
both greed and death.
Odd, this freedom
our masters brought.
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This was written during the Vietnam war, aboard Admiral Steele’s (Commander Seventh Fleet, in charge of all Far East U.S. Armed Forces) flagship CLG-5 USS Oklahoma City. This is about two contradistinct things; that war and rhetoric surrounding actions which are unjustifiable. As such, it’s also about politics itself. IT IS ABSOLUTELY UNJUSTIFIABLE TO “POINT THE FINGER” AT A GIVEN POLITICAL PARTY OR EVEN METHOD OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. All methods of justifying usage of force by stated hypotheses (theories are the result of hypotheses which haven’t been disproven by tests; there IS NO PROOF available through empiricism.
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