My first girlfriend, Meredith, came with a hilarious Malapropism, borrowed in turn from her ex-husband, Pierce, who once in some fit of exasperation triggered By educating idiots, had described that task as like “Teaching a blind man to see electricity.” We need not
Decades ago, I thought the Left claimed everything comes down to money, nowadays the Left says everything comes down to power. I thought both money and power are tools to use but not abuse. People have worshipped both money and power, but that is not wise to do so.
Electricity
>tfw your wife's boyfriend will never mention you in a poem
Remember when he was writing a book?
>it's a Gray Mirror poetry/politics crossover episode
Pretty good actually! Particularly liked
"But to capture the net economic surplus of a populace
Is simply to conquer them—a principle fully understood
From emperors of Akkad to earls of Northumberland,
Yet has the new man blinded himself."
True those that worship power rule over all
They've killed with loot and plunder since the Fall
Yet we that live to wive and thrive and see
Our spawn grow tall and brave and know that we
Know something kings and rulers never know:
That money, power and glitter cannot grow
The world in wisdom, honor, and respect.
If humans social creatures be, expect
That there will ever be the hero bold
That dares to journey in the underworld
And demons there confront that he may come
Back to the world above with wisdom's sum.
He comes to tell us how it ever is
That power and money have no fizz.
"We will never see the door in front of our noses."
Sad!
Living in prisons without bars - or something like that, thanks, spot on
This is just Moldbug's poetry blog now :/
Decades ago, I thought the Left claimed everything comes down to money, nowadays the Left says everything comes down to power. I thought both money and power are tools to use but not abuse. People have worshipped both money and power, but that is not wise to do so.