Totalitarianism 'Fore the Eye of History

Verily -

righteousness is not only rampant -

but treacherously devolving into tyranny of thought and oppression of action  -

'fore the eye of history -

Totalitarianism 'Fore the Eye of History

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'My side is RIGHT!' - scream the righteous -

'My side is JUST!' - thunder the sanctimonious -

'My side is MORAL!' - bombast the conceited -

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Alas -

The rally above -

Is not enough -

To budge believers - (and hypocrites) -

To sway followers - (and loyalists) -

To convert zealots - (and stupids) -

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So -

Rhetoric advances -

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'My side is THE ONLY RIGHT side!' - scream the righteous -

'My side is THE ONLY JUST side!' - thunder the sanctimonious -

'My side is THE ONLY MORAL side!' - bombast the conceited -

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Alas -

The testimony above -

Is not enough -

To satisfy -

Avarice -

- for total allegiance - to one side - 

- and -

- abject rejection of any avowal to one side - sans total repudiation (and unqualified renunciation) of the other -

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So -

Vitriol brims -

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'The OTHER is the WRONG side!' - scream the righteous - 'To be OTHER is to BE WRONG!' -

'The OTHER is the UNJUST side!' - thunder the sanctimonious - 'To be OTHER is to BE UNJUST!' -

'The OTHER is the IMMORAL side!' - bombast the conceited - 'To be OTHER is to BE IMMORAL!' -

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As if - 

- only One choice -

- only One decided -

- only One side -

Is - Good, Just, Moral -

Because - no other side -

Is - Good, Just, Moral -

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(As if - such determinations - by one side - of others - is ever absent of patent agenda to discredit and malign opposition and contest - regardless of actual merit of such 'determinations' -)

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As if -

- coherence, compliance, conformity - with side -

- affirms virtuousness -

As if -

- that side choosing is unvirtuous -

- is irrelevant -

As if -

- the truth - (of side choosing) -

- set aside and denied -

- for convenience - for greed - for aspirations of totalitarianism -

- is not wrong, unjust, immoral -

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To be -

- Good, Just, Moral -

- is to eschew side choosing for mutuus et aequum, vivo et liber, etc.

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Meanwhile - tyranny of thought -

- is that which is rallied by the righteous, the sanctimonious, the conceited -

Meanwhile - oppression of action -

- is that which is testified by the righteous, the sanctimonious, the conceited -

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As if -

- scream, thunder, bombast -

- conviction, devotion, loyalty -

- mitigates tyranny and absolves oppression -

As if -

- to blindly surrender - wherewithal and agency -

- in order to cohere, comply, conform - with side -

- is mandatory -

- that -

- to forswear thought and forsake action -

- is imperative - compulsory - obligatory -

- for all -

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Whilst -

- to disagree, to dissent, to challenge - sides (and side choosing) -

- is indefensible - treasonous, seditious - subversive to the crusade of righteousness whose autocratic despotism is inalienable and justified - per side -

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Until -

- defiance is silenced -

- questioning is censored -

- protest is suppressed -

Until -

- righteousness paves the road to totalitarianism -

- 'fore the all seeing eye of history.

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Devolution is inevitable -

Because the righteous, the sanctimonious, the conceited -

Are no less likely to succumb to greed and self interest -

Than the ignoble, the degenerate, the profligate -

For greed and self interest corrupt all who crave more more more for me me me -

Until -

All who stead fast against the greed and the interest of the corrupt -

Are the incorruptible -

Who eschew ayes for history (that are but props wantonly exploited for ego and hubris and fame and perpetuity, as if 'history' ever veers off script to tell the truth) - for mutuus et aequum, vivo et liber, etc. for all -

- M.

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Note

What idle threat - eye of history - that sees all - but veers never off script -

- for aphotism now is but aphotism then -

- no more cured by advancements of time -

- than scripts now and scripts then -

- tell the truth -

- for 'history' is as false positive and as false negative - as lies pretending to truth -

- (including that lie that the eye of history is not I, I, I masquerading as his, his, his and her, her, her) -

- M.