Emotion Rebellion

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Why are so many of us

 angry?

Disillusioned?

Why is compromise

a dirty word,

when in our private lives

we work out compromises

every minute

to keep life 

harmonious?

People:

Our deep emotional side

feels cheated and lied to.

That deepest, most ancient

and Human portion of ourselves

has systematically been 

devalued.

Don't get me wrong,

I'm glad to enjoy

our scientific age

and it's myriad,

undeniable blessings.

But something vital has been lost

- fairly recently -

and we all feel it.

Visiting "less developed" places

we encounter smiles,

and resilience of joy,

that our culture lacks.

Because we have 

ignored the care

and feeding of Our Humanity,

our emotional unity

that very ancient part of us

is on life support.

All that's left

is a vestigial patriotism

played like a fiddle

by those who profit 

from war.

We roll it our for parades.

In the absence of wider 

Shared Values that empower

  our emotional side's best,

a forest of technicalities,

convolutions, and

Procedures

holds all the power

in day to day life.

This state of affairs

frustrates our most

basic connection to

"Right & Wrong." 

We are estranged,

governed by those who

believe that they,

not we,

see the Big Picture.

They after all are

Leaders.

We used to call them

Servants of the Public.

But the clash with reality

has retired that expression.

Where are they leading us?

Instead our emotions,

uneducated & ignored,

are played upon by experts

causing us to purchase,

wear, vote, live out 

conformity.

Though our shared public 

conformity has shattered,

this has not deterred 

the self proclaimed "Elite."

Our public narratives

have wandered far afield.

The Center

will Not Hold.

And perhaps this too

is by design,

because the voters

united

will never be defeated.

So they need us to be

stirred up and confused.

Clarity would show us

how robbed we are!

They have thwarted 

and channeled our
wise discontents,

cleverly making of us

 impotent clans opposing

each other.

We waste our political energies

in argument

accomplishing

Nothing.

This too keeps the 

machine of society

 humming

in the  

 predetermined direction.

Happy or angry

it's all the same to them:

we go to work

we buy their shit

we repeat their lies.

In the 60's Grace Slick

and the Jefferson Airplane sang:

"Feed Your Head."

Today the revolutionary

evolutionary

radical & conservative

Thing To Do:

FEED YOUR HEART.

Ignore the phony oppositions,

stop arguing with your neighbor,

and hear their desperate heart

that knows something is wrong.

The talismans of guns,

prepping for disaster

and hating those godless

liberals

are really talismans:

hopeful charms protecting

the same things liberals value!

Family, Liberty, American Values

(which have always included

both welcoming

and beating immigrants.

Sad but true.)

So we continue;

Pushing the boulder of decency

and civic equity

up the steep incline

of loud, wrong

"explanations."

Who do those explanations

serve?

Not You,

Not Me.

One message of the 60's

still rings true:

" All the world over, so easy to see

People everywhere just wanna be free

I can't understand it, so simple to me

People everywhere just got to be free

Ah, ah, yeah . . . ah, ah, yeah

If there's a man who is down

 and needs a helping hand

All it takes is you to understand 

and to see him through "

Young Rascals 

People Got To Be Free

[ Lyrics ]

Together. Here.

You & Me-

We Are Living It 

Every Day

Can You Feel the Power?

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