enough
In the quiet you may know bombs are not the way to go.
But what are we to do? It'
s out of our
control.
Or so it may seem, if you don't slow down and think.
We feed the machine with each coin that we plink.
Is there no other choice? Is there no other way?
How does it happen? Who gets the
pay?
Who are our
owners? Why do we
slave?
Many
work from abroad to give
us cheap
things.
Wages are kept low through
artificial
scarcity.
Through
borders and
outsourcing they try to get in.
To escape the
nightmare that is caused by this sin.
Even the
middle
class, with our
jobs and our
debt.
When will we be there? Why aren't we there yet?
They tell
us to wait for an invisible man.
He'll
solve all our problems with a swipe of his hand.
The
imagery cast is of
profit and
war,
He'll rid
US of
terrorists by bombing the
poor.
He'll
kill all the
lefties that won't blind their eye,
To the cannibalistic
externalism of the beast from on high.
It'
s a confu
sing proposition. Hasn't it always
just been?
Are these conditions required? Or
just a sleight of hand?
So I decided to ask: "What is it we
need?"
"How is it kept from
us?" "Why can't we succeed?"
Of course it'
s water,
food,
drugs,
clothing, shelter at first.
Where do these
come from? Is it not the earth?
It suddenly struck me with surprise and de
light.
I
realized the answer is
right in plain sight!
But the excitement was quenched when soon I learned.
That
out in the
open, like beautiful fires lies
burn.
A teacher once taught me: push the problem to
extreme.
To find what is hidden behind the mind'
s screen.
These shelters we
build to hide from the truth.
When that which is there is too scary to look.
So I wondered about those
right down on the ground.
Fingering
food from steel bowls with flies all around.
The
TV asks for some
money to
help.
"Those less fortunate", "Those who
need work."
But what they don't tell
us, for few of them know.
Is that this on purpose.
Poverty
creates
growth.
So to
solve these problem would not be so s
mart.
For to
solve any problem is bad for the
market.
If you look very long it'
s easy to see.
Solutions are bad for The
Economy.
When
dependence is broken,
wages go up.
And if the
solution is
free, your
product is not bought.
Our
economic system has a flaw, whether
planned or mistake.
It allows re
source hoarding of the
finite.
This
creates
Progress and
Poverty at the same
time.
By
dividing
us on paper with fancy lines.
It causes
us to
labor for those at the
top.
Who only get
rich because they were there first.
It somehow
just happens. We become one of the fold.
Toiling for another till we fall down and
mold.
Though this spell is ancient, it has not always been.
In the
beginning there was
enough for all women and men.
For even the
books we are supposed to believe.
Tell
us life was a
bundant for Adam and Eve.
But then some
thing happened; they
really screwed up.
They ate a
fruit forbidden by those on the
top.
Who
owned this
garden with a
bundance so thick?
Is it a representation of the
property
owner?
The
law says an
owner can
drive everyone off.
For no reason at all,
just because it'
s his stuff.
That is what happened in the
garden so
rich.
Driven off of their
land, and into big
debt.
Hoarding is
used to
create
scarcity.
When applied to the
finite it
creates
power and
need.
Henry George found that to fix from the
top.
Is a f
utile endeavor, as it'
s all so corrupt.
The leaders and their bribers have too much to lose.
They are the
land holders. The
want servitude.
So we must become the very
owners we hate.
Take hold of the
reigns and charge
out of the
gate!
The
law says
property is
exclusive domain.
But it does not choose the
state it is in.
Lock it closed to en
force
scarcity.
Or
lock it
open to
create
community.
After much re
search, some worry and thought,
I understand the puddle of
freedom of which St I
GNUcius taught.