The Great Reset
("Bye Bye Safe Journey", 2014, original pen and ink and oil)
The Great Reset
As the modern world hurls towards tomorrow
more and more of us are swept up,
languages, dress, myths and beliefs,
consumed in the cause of hope and change, security and conformity
in short, control.
The two sides of this debate are as they have always been;
life vs. death, freedom vs. slavery, our choice being
as Henry Patrick once so eloquently said,
“Give me liberty or give me death!”
The modern world for once gives us the power to choose,
with the power to enforce,
but it has also shown this power of choice
must be voluntary to stick.
And so armed with an over abundance of data
leaders assault the masses with information
filtered through their biases, prejudices and grant applications
to control the flow through media,
mass, public, private and social,
control the content through
severs and censors, ads and algorithms,
control the outcome
with purse strings and a cancel culture
that stretches from the ivory towers to board rooms
local papers and Thanksgiving dinners.
None of this would be possible without the power of communication
of data, threats, promises and consequences.
Without this world wide web
of modern convenience, homogenization, cooperation
The Great Reset would be nothing but a dream in dictator’s heads
instead it’s a template being offered for us to embrace
by socially conscious bureaucrats
at the cusp of a future devoid of choice.
This is the future we face, at last
voluntarily enslaved to serve the greater good
in the name of death, the fear of it, in obsession with it,
as we cling to our smaller and smaller
piece of the pie.
Somewhere Patrick Henry is turning in his grave
spinning by now, like a top ready to break free
to be made anew, literally born again,
a spirit of freedom that, like love,
never dies.
(12/12/23)
Copyright ©
James Moore
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