Fear is the new dog whistle
What's the next thing that will keep us in check, keep us from being our own masters - the true aim, of a true democracy?
“Fear cannot be got rid of by personal effort, but only by the ego’s absorption in a cause greater than its own interests (the bow). Absorption in any cause will rid the mind of some of its fears; but only absorption in the loving and knowing of the divine ground, can rid it of all fear”
- Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. p. 163
Lemmings
It's the fear.
The fear that gets them
running together
and set in a frenzy.
But the problem is
how to keep them running?
Fear only goes so far
until it's just the norm and
the boogie man is no more.
So the solution?
A message packaged
with a little pretty red bow on top
- it's all about the bow,
every salesman knows that
and you the product
will keep running
to get to that bow
to untie that bow
to honor that bow.
You'll keep running
or die trying
for that bow ...
But then it's the cliff
and you're of no use,
you're dead in the air,
just another
used up
product.
That's how this world
of order,
on order
works.
How they get
nice young men
to pick up guns
and rape pretty women
on faraway shores.
How they get you to
buy what you don't need
or stay in your house
because they said so
and
"it's for the sake of us all."
and if you don't
they'll be no
pretty red bow
and we're all screwed then,
aren't we?