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Responsibilities of Citizenry

responsibilities of “citizenry” blanket statements are always made, be they flippant or completely genuine & until the AI”s get their bugs worked out (upon a time far in the non- nuclear-war future), no doubt this error in us humans will continue. so what is it to be a “citizen” in a “country,” much less an “empire,” that wields horror & violence, violence & horror all over the rest of the world? is it enough to say “we’re powerless…we got to deal with things at home…those up top have got the whole thing rigged & there’s no way to change things.” will that suffice? is it better to say that there are those within the belly who are sickened by the growing cancer & who dream of a day when more people get angry & rise up, as we have seen happen historically, regardless of whatever “successes” may have been derived from the unrest? will that suffice? is it better to condemn all those who speak against the empire, who speak against those doing its bidding, who are angered & whether they are actively resisting from within or holding it all inside for hopes of a greater explosion in the near future? will that suffice? for if you point your finger at a country & you say they are responsible for the terrifying deeds that you have mounds of evidence suggesting that they are solely the cause of, you single out no one & then those who speak quick point the finger at you & say “how dare you accuse john-&-jenny-Q- do-nothing of being part of the mania!” & that all those folks haven’t a thing to do with what their country does, because said nation seems to act of its own volition, with the small room & the conspiracy & the moneyed interests & the lust for blood & the want for the status quo to keep on spinning & spinning. will that suffice? is it better to acknowledge that all humans were condemned to be born wherever it was that they fell out of the whom & all supposed allegiances which they are supposed to hold, in regards to the when-where-who-how, are simply layers of the onion which one needs to peel off themselves in order to focus their energy, strength & anger upon those in ANY place whose actions show us all just exactly who has it out for the species, just exactly who is doing their best to drive the rest of us under? & supposing this was the case... wouldn’t everyone, everywhere, be responsible for everything that happens? yet nothing is sufficient, is it?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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