Mindset

“Mad Bad Sad” by Paul Pulszartti

(Regarding the Orlando terrorism)

evil walks brazenly
freely among us
psychotic lone wolves
and fifth columnists
bred of the very same
sordid black seed
a fanatical cultural junta
adapting the bright
apparatus of freedom
to murderous weapons
of violent intolerance
free to kill freedom
assassinate innocents
making of open society
closeminded bastion of
deeply flawed conscience
malignant deforming
the blessings of liberty
into a morbid moiety

truth and lies
love and hate
friend and foe
look the same
to the credulous eye
sound the same
to the unworldly ear
feel the same to the
too-trusting touch
the societal mind
must be sternly reset
to root out their
deadly distinctions
there must be a
steadfastly rigorous
noetic reckoning
otherwise terror
will surely abscond
with our civilized soul

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“All truth passes through three stage: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”      – Arthur Schopenhauer