Our Enculturated Conditioned Civilized Path — the Breeding of Sorrow
a path
of separation
fear
an imprisonment of the mind
a story of war
war within
war without
a path designed by ignorance
by those enculturated
by authority
conditioned into the young
through trauma, dysfunction
a system forcing them to silence their wonder
to silence their curiosity
to silence their authentic voices
their egos grow and adapt
formulating masks to wear and present
finding ways to survive the best way they know how
And here, we buy into the cultural story
that there is something wrong with us
something wrong in the world
and so we project this belief
and in this belief
Maya lies
fragmented
formulaic
destructive
a name called many names
its self-proclaimed visions
constructed out of its veil of separation
insecurities and deceptions
formed out of the composite of fear
the desires of ignorance
the clinging of possessiveness
the fear of boredom
the fear of getting out of the
hampster wheel of our
lives of discontent
the enculturation
blossoming in twists and turns for millenniums
stemming into greed
and thorns of hate
blooming blind righteousness
the fragmented delusional hierarchy
a system of corruption
of oppression
everyone vying for some sense of power
buying into continual wars
the enculturation
enslaves by its ideological rewards of
a perceived success
by its educational authoritative force
giving rise to robotic humans
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devoid of critical thought and love
it enslaves with its double-speak propaganda
by it’s bloody guns and missiles
through consumerism’s addictiveness
in time
most want to hold on
for want of security
though in the end
it’s self-sustaining agenda
breeds sorrow
struggle
violence
domination
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into social and ecological
degradation and despair
this civilization
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 ignorance
as the emblem of civilized ideologies
the conforming affair
of obsessions and ambitions
the implementation
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of brutality and slavery
racism and sexism
genocide and ecocide
war and pestilence
the win-at-all-cost mentality
it is the craving 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
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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
in its all-consuming conquest
hell is formulated
in the constant assault
against the body, people, and the environment
it splinters people from community
community from nature
and distorts it into polluted fractures
of a pervasive sickness
lurking in our educational systems
students formed and molded
voices tempered
their ideas conditioned
their visions, not their own
imprisonment become their path
their own passions
and sense of wonder
becoming
embers in the winter
of society’s discontent
their awake consciousness
lost by the edifice of their 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 peace
unhealth not health
conflict not communion
is the nature of
the enculturated way
