Our Dysfunctional Violent Culture
separation conditioned
through education and beliefs
authority pushing conformity
placing every child
beneath the wheel
of pressure and competition
a forced indoctrination
against their own humanity
sensitivity and wonder
their voices lost
they lose thier authenticity
to become a part of
the societal dysfunction
psychological fear blooms
within the individual
for they don’t matter
and an illusionary separation
within the psyche
isolating them in
the realm of anxiety and despair
suffering is developed
and energized through conditioning
from the individual into the collective
and the collective into the individual
in an unending play
it is a culture that
perpetuates endlessly
neurosis and dysfunction
this separation
this fear
a cancer
destroying
out of control
Raging against nature
Raging against our own humanity
shadows and storms
swim within its collective psyche
our culture
fights and grows like a hydra
it uses hate and violence
to perpetuate its destructive growth
always progressing
battling against
as its population blossoms
and in all ways it degrades
other people
Other species
other resources
it rages against
Always against
grooving a forced path
forced upon the young
upon any that come upon its path
lurking
spreading her tentacles
maya lies
dysfunctional
formulaic
destructive
a name called many names
its self proclaimed visions
constructed out of its
veil of separation
insecurities and deceptions
are constructed
designed from its composite of fear
it craves and hungering
suffering in twists and turns for millenniums
stemming into
endless bloody wars
greed
and thorns of hate
blooming blind righteousness
Into branching hierarchies
vying and circling
and circling
into a whirlpool of violence
it enslaves by its ideological jewels
its double-speak propaganda
its bloody guns and missiles
its fearful insatiable desires
conditioned and normalized
most want to hold on
for want of security
and comfort
though in the end
it’s self-sustaining agenda
breeds sorrow
struggle
violence
domination
bleeding into social and ecological
degradation and despair
it is the calling of the will
to blow itself
like a tempest
on to the world
upon all it comes across
to make itself known
attractive
to destroy those that don’t fit into its creed
It is the refined summons
of self division
Of proclaimed analytical rationalizations
A self imposed intelligence of ignorance
as the final creed
the emblem of civilized ideologies
the conforming affairs
of obsessions and ambitions
the implementation
of brutality and slavery
racism and sexism
genocide and ecocide
war and pestilence
poverty and sickness
the win at all cost mentality
it is the cravings of pleasure
the escape from pain
through its blind attachments
which in the beginning
and the end
blooms destruction
for in its chattering obsessions
are always divided
marginalized
appearing at times debonair, stylish, clever, arrogant
other times ugly, greedy, murderous, deceptive, insecure
a common bond, a common pull
a bond of want, of more
More….power
fame, purpose, control
land, people, riches
spirituality
yet
it can never be satiated
in its
self held beliefs
it faithfully battles, isolates
creating mirages of synthetic meaning
for its own perpetuation
an all consuming conquest
hell is formulated
in the constant assault
against body, people and the wild
it splinters person from community
community from nature
and distorts it into
polluted fractures
of a pervasive illness
lurking in our educational systems
children formed and molded
voices tempered
their ideas conditioned
their visions not their own
certain fields become their path
their own passions and wonders
becoming
embers in the winter
of society’s discontent
their awake consciousness
lost in the edifice of the
enculturated ego-tyrant
as the subtle violence
and authority
is continuously perpetuated
they lose themselves
and so continue the blindness
that lies within their elders
suffering not health
conflict not communion
violence not peace
is the nature of its way -
