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("Anagogical Moments Merit Badge", 2011, original oil)

A Totalitarian Totality

Have you ever wondered why so many these days
Are trying to save the world,
Tell you what to think, or say or do
And cancel you when you say no, or simply why?

The short answer is that’s just what totalitarians do,
Totalitarian control and conformity
Being their highest agenda after all.

Does it matter if they are right
And you are wrong?
Of course not since truth is now a relative thing
Yours and/or mine being just ‘our truth’.

But if a truth is simply our truth,
As an equally valid subjective take on reality,
Leaving its objective merit apparently up to majority rule,
Then what has become of objective truth,
You know the old fashioned kind
Which doesn’t rely on causes and conditions
Doesn’t need to be learned or defended to be
Simply THE truth?

That is so 20th century!

We live now in a Brave New World
Where our individual courage and integrity
Is never in question since it’s never required.

In a world of only relative truths
Everything exists on a spectrum
With the full rainbow of sights and sounds welcome
At least in theory if not in practice.

When was the last time you saw a sign saying,
“Gays for Hitler!”
While you now see them saying, “Gays for Hamas”,
When Hitler and Hamas are in essence the same?

But that’s the crux isn’t it?
A truly tolerant and inclusive world view
Would embrace it all
As equally true (thus assumedly valid),
But that’s not how the real world operates
Nor how anyone wants it to.

Objective truth might be an inherently difficult thing to define,
But a simple thought experiment as the above
Shows us that our gut knows
What our head can so easily confuse.

What else is out there?
What else is there to know?
Comrade, rest easy, those questions
Are above our pay-grade.

Just wait until the authorities 
tell us what to think, say and do.
We wouldn't want you cancelled too...

(8/19/24)
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