“There’s something rotten in the state of America” could be a line from a modern Shakespeare.
“Theocracy is the worst of all governments.” C.S. Lewis
The Theocrats Are Here There's a sickness in the land, the gods of vengeance masquerade as righteous lovers of goodness, but their wolfish snouts peek out from beneath their sheepish skins for all to see, though sadly, too late for reversals, now judgements scour the land as to who owns women's bodies, the divinity of children, the evil of colour that is not white, where you park a penis (even never), whether to murder in the name of justice - electric, gas or juice, there's a sickness in the land, there's no rash or temperature, it's a handgun and an AR-15. Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
Note: C.S. Lewis’ quote goes on to say (profoundly) that “If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.”
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Brilliant, Paul.
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Thank you so much Pat (I wish I had the power to change it).
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I wish you did, too. I fear that gangrene has already set in.
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What a visceral image Liz, yes, rotten.
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Sorry about that. My cynicism got the better of me.
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Lol, join the queue – we’re all in this.
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🙂
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A powerful calling out of the atrocities that continue on and on.
I think your C.S. Lewis quote is so true!
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Lewis is on point indeed, and thank you Dwight.
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You and me both. I can’t.comment from my PC but can from my cellphone. This is a new problem. Do you use Jetpack? I’m trying to figure out why this is happening on with some blogs and not.others
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Yes, Jetpack, it does seem to mess visitors around on occasion, I have three visitors who it periodically effects. My apologies Pat.
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Not your fault. I’ve begun noticing it on several blogs this past week.
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I wonder why now, I find the internet a total mystery at times – no rhyme or reason.
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Unspeakably cruel white men in charge of massacres.
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Yes, absolutely, and what a smug lot they are.
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Well said, Paul.
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Thank you indeed Chris
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We get the government we deserve. This system didn’t build and doesn’t sustain itself. The haves like their stuff and the robber barons will continue to rule via their lackeys on the ground. The day the lackeys wake up and realize that they have far more in common with the little people than the barons is the day of our liberation from the tyranny. When the guns turn, we will be free. (Until the next despot takes the helm.)
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p.s. We have to accept that this is our human nature as rationalizing beasts, no offense to beasts.
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Yes, I agree Lisa, if we did just that we could relax back a little from the need to create fantasies in the wrong sense (power, lust, greed, control).
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Yes, spot the despot 🙂 I think what disturbs me most now is that it is blatant corruption and division everywhere, O for the revolution, or, as my friend Ana suggests, evolution 🙂
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Well said, Sir!
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Me too, Paul. 🥴
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🙂
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Reblogged this on NEW BLOG HERE >> https:/BOOKS.ESLARN-NET.DE.
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Thank you Michael.
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:-)) xx
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Sadly and tragically so true and so so well penned
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I think the world is in the grip of this right now, not sure how we’re going to come through it.
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I’m at a loss to understand all the positive engagement with this poem. I understand the ideas but do not feel them, am not taken on the roads of language to a better place. I’m taken to judgment and recycle, I mean, judge those people! and let the time spirit write your words on so many lips today. What’s the cause of the sickness, or, what really is the sickness? And has it infected single person, even you? http://harms-end.com/2022/10/14/listen-to-your-neighbor/
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Everything effects and has an affect, in that sense an infect. The butterfly effect if you like.
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Yes, but I’m working on getting better at human relations, as I see I have a lot of room for improvement, even though I’ve learned to throw out hate. How about you?
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I’d agree.
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