Posted on November 22, 2017August 16, 2024 by Eric SundinFrom (not by) Reality deserted Twisted like acrobatic acts to engineer outcomes perverted opinions offered up as facts then glibly, haughtily asserted On recklessness binged in forward pose pours on claims unhinged anything goes! These days seem veracity as well as morality eclipsed by mendacity in foam bath banality In times erstwhile weren’t we restrained by facts as being impregnable? Perhaps too old to be retrained for when few norms are detectable Now floating away dazzled from Reality’s shores we’re too creaky & frazzled to keep pulling the oars Thus on waves of distraction we’re drifting when did we last do something uplifting? +) facts = “Factual evidence, since it is an impediment to what we desire, is banished” – Chris Hedges edited 08/15/24 1730
Twisted like acrobatic acts
to engineer outcomes perverted
opinions offered up as facts
then glibly, haughtily asserted
On recklessness binged
in forward pose
pours on claims unhinged
anything goes!
These days seem veracity
as well as morality
eclipsed by mendacity
in foam bath banality
In times erstwhile weren’t we restrained
by facts as being impregnable?
Perhaps too old to be retrained
for when few norms are detectable
Now floating away dazzled
from Reality’s shores
we’re too creaky & frazzled
to keep pulling the oars
Thus on waves of distraction we’re drifting
when did we last do something uplifting?
+)
facts = “Factual evidence, since it is an impediment to what we desire, is banished” – Chris Hedges
edited 08/15/24 1730