More on Human ABILITY to REASON, Human RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 160

Most likely to be published later this spring/summer of 2020, my 11th book entitled appropriately; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the previous....

PROEM & POEM No. 160 - Jevons’ Laws of Thought / Reprise

      As much as we have no power to interfere with laws of thought as Mr. Jevons suggests, or perhaps no right to interfere per the common human propensity to dissent against the interference (to alternatively suggest), government insists then persists to expend resources, exert effort as well exercise compulsion so to persuade individual thought therefore manipulate collective behavior. Thusly formulated in part by centrally produced demagoguery, funded in part by centrally planned debauchery, government’s persuasion and manipulation are for the sole purpose to preempt the otherwise innately, rightfully self-interested dissent in favor of a covetously inculcated, craftily imbued consent.

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What fuss, hot as musk, fraught the dusk with the death

Liken Duncan caught amid thrust, envy then Macbeth

Wrested and infested, all too well forthrightly contested

Crestfallen individual pride as polity coveted and molested

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

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