PROEM & POEM No. 145 - Pursuit of Happiness / 4th Reprise
Covetousness is never satiated, albeit seemingly yet temporarily subsiding upon each coveted objective’s alleged success and perceived benefit. Alleged and perceived for always tainted marginally else considerably the success and benefit by the disparity between the anticipative imagination versus the acquisitive realization, that is to say, the psychological, emotional digression from pursuit’s greater euphoria to possession’s lesser dysphoria. Exasperated of course the disappointment eventually if not immediately, per the transitory satisfaction waning, hence giving way to the previously ebbed covetousness to flow and rise once again; it is the inescapable state of humanity thus the ever-present propensity for error and excess.
The inevitable depths within this covetously vicious cycle is repeated disappointment as mentioned, displeasure to follow, if unchecked then festering to bitterness, resentment, rancor as well hate, rage onto violence towards others predictably and oneself paradoxically. Socially then soon politically, such digressions are oft disguised as something else; righteous anger, moral outrage, thereby personally, arbitrarily preferring then illogically, unethically justifying a form of “by any means necessary”, nonetheless narcissistically empowering by sententiously pontificating hate and violence.
Whether to refer philosophically as the common propensity for error and excess or theologically as the common sin (see No. 146), state of humanity is not without relief, so covetousness is not without a nemesis, a natural enemy if you will, or perhaps a common grace as divinely provided.
The inevitable depths within this covetously vicious cycle is repeated disappointment as mentioned, displeasure to follow, if unchecked then festering to bitterness, resentment, rancor as well hate, rage onto violence towards others predictably and oneself paradoxically. Socially then soon politically, such digressions are oft disguised as something else; righteous anger, moral outrage, thereby personally, arbitrarily preferring then illogically, unethically justifying a form of “by any means necessary”, nonetheless narcissistically empowering by sententiously pontificating hate and violence.
Whether to refer philosophically as the common propensity for error and excess or theologically as the common sin (see No. 146), state of humanity is not without relief, so covetousness is not without a nemesis, a natural enemy if you will, or perhaps a common grace as divinely provided.
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O Libertatem, carissimum te esse mibi, latent the affinity
Tainted more by the atrocities, per Thomas’ goddamn tree
Refreshed from time to time, scribed he, “Blood must flow!”
Popularly moral, perpetually laurelled; oddest of fandangos
O Libertatem, carissimum te esse mibi, yet the propensity
Loins for coins as ancient temple harlotry, liberty for subsidy
Chants for grants, exchanges for privileges, sole right recanted
For threshed on floor the mind from body per soul decanted
O Libertatem, carissimum te esse mibi, per reasoning
Consenting or dissenting, since humanity’s beginning
Empirically the consistency, self-evidently the logic
Without rarity, equipoising by the one and only ethic
Tainted more by the atrocities, per Thomas’ goddamn tree
Refreshed from time to time, scribed he, “Blood must flow!”
Popularly moral, perpetually laurelled; oddest of fandangos
O Libertatem, carissimum te esse mibi, yet the propensity
Loins for coins as ancient temple harlotry, liberty for subsidy
Chants for grants, exchanges for privileges, sole right recanted
For threshed on floor the mind from body per soul decanted
O Libertatem, carissimum te esse mibi, per reasoning
Consenting or dissenting, since humanity’s beginning
Empirically the consistency, self-evidently the logic
Without rarity, equipoising by the one and only ethic
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
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