Copyright © 2009 Ernest Bloom.
Lord, these mortals pull themselves apart,
ensnared on the rhetoric of efficiency that turns
good men and women into battered bits of
derelict machinery. You can hear them screaming
of love lost and lives forfeited, but it's mostly
a consequence of forgetting to keep one's
eye on the ball. Efficiency: such a dirty word
it's become! Human beings are best when they're
messy and they embrace simplicity in a world already
complex enough through all spectral scales
without the additional, unuseful sedimentary strata
of hypercaffeinated middle-managers who've
sold their souls to squeeze out love and heart
and beauty and sweat and blood into another
buck for fat-cats ensconced in glowing mahogany
offices like little bubbles of Heaven on Earth we'll
never see. Why would you wish to willingly lose
your loves and be drained of all natural passion
for the greater glory of the likes of them?
Hah, couldn't help but think of Puck, especially since you already did a similar piece starting like this earlier on. Very emotional protest outcry of the modern mortal who just wants to remain in what he knows best, loves best, what, indeed, permits him to love, to feel, to be- his personality. Though money is important as it gives freedom and generalizing like this is perhaps a bit unfair to all those mahogany 'fat-cats' who aren't quite as bad as you make them out to be. I'm with you, of course, it's just I don't think money is the enemy, nor that any businessman and careerist is of necessity a man bereft of passions. At worse, I think, he is a man dominated by one passion- the material drive of the modern capitalist society. Well, money is important but there is a price I wouldn't rather pay.
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