Best Indoctrination Poems

Along the path of righteousness
the blind, they lead the blind
There is no second guessing here
don't say what's on your mind

What is, made up, is set in stone
can't catch another train
The one you're on is yours for life
and on it you'll remain

Cross the river, (That of...

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Its forty years now
since that first day,
I remember still the
tears that dropped from
my cheeks as my mother’s
hand unclasped mine,
breaking the bond I’d
known from birth, handing
me over as though I were
a piece of lost property,
Miss Pringle was very kind,
and I’m sure understanding,
but she was only a
substitute,...

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you cant use a knife
to weed a farm
you can use the cutlass
to peel a yam
it easier to cross the river
than to cross the sea
the tree of positivity
bears a fruit of liberty
and the tree of negativity
bears the fruit of abomination
to the righteous the beauty of life...

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If you accept any accurate or misinformation,
without doing any research and without question,
then you are a victim of ignorant thinking,
making you a very good candidate for indoctrination,
with very little hope of ever deprograming,
rendering you helpless to any independent thinking....

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There has always been war, there will always be war.
There has always been scarcity, there will always be poor.
There will never be world peace, there will always be hate and criminality.
If you believe any or all of the above, you've been indoctrinated heavily.
If you don't...

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They all put so much stress on
getting a college degree,
and if it’s math or science,
I think that I would agree.
But in the humanities
another trend now appears,
kids are taught to hate themselves,
and this is reason for fear.
Instead of the great questions,
they’re taught to obsess on race,
and...

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Lost in a desperate mind world
Seeking a sense of community
and a need to belong
through an innate desire to be whole again.
But confused…
The path nebulous.

And through indoctrination
either directly or unintentionally
or perhaps inadvertently
harboring a vision that individuality is the answer
through a desire to see and “find oneself”
but...

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People are not born to hate or discriminate

To abuse or to violate, 

These acts are taught through domestication

Of powerful indoctrination

And continual manipulation, 

Through media, parents and society

It hard to escape this reality, 

To find our love and inner peace

At least this is my philosophy

A personal...

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Pandora has a big black box.
Woe the day she turns on FOX.
May she then begin again
and turn the switch to CNN,
or better still, to the BBC.
While hope remains
 all shadows flee....

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Go to sleep now.
.
.
.
And when you awake you will find
A new world, with new desires
New feelings, new beliefs and new joys
You will experience a sense of total satisfaction
Acceptance, and sureness of yourself
No more pain and need and disappointment
Only gentle bliss.

But that makes me less
That steals...

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Do not go gentle into that totalitarian night
They lured you in with the promise of a new day
Rage against their deception, and for freedom's light

From a stagnant pool, you jumped into a river of no return
They said the new would rise, the old could burn
Swim...

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Lemmings run in tunnels deep,
The obsessed won't let the phantoms sleep,
But I can't stampede with brainwashed sheep,
I plunged into the soul river.

Leaving the crowd was hard to do
My heart, deceived, believed it knew,
But I left the comfort zone, joined the few.
And plunged into the soul...

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("Niobe's Tear", 2020, original encaustic)

The Lie of Equality and Truth of Universality

The world has always been divided
Along lines of haves and have nots
In whatever way you wish
To measure the having.

The difference today is
Inequality is no longer acceptable.

But since it clearly exists - empirically
In whatever way...

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What have we done to Generation Z?
Left them huge debts, who could break free?
Inflated the currency, raised every price
If you like your kids, how was that nice?

Playgrounds turned into pixelated parks,
Teens regret childhood chats with faceless sharks.
Images seen, can't be unseen,  
Can purity's acorn...

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I walked in Draper Park
Saw a family at a table, heard a dog bark
"Ernie's friendly," said the Mommy, "he won't bite"
A large goofy dog came at me, seemed alright.

Ernie growled, maybe because I smelled of beer
Or maybe because I didn't let him sniff my rear
But...

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