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“And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence)
is an art whereby some man, or some few men,
subject a city or a nation,
and rule it according to his or their private interest;
which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man,
or of some few families,
may be said to be the empire of men,
and not of laws.”
--- James Harrington (or Harington)
January 3, 1611-September 11, 1677
before
school forces you
how to read
to trust an institution
to give you words
make you do how words connect
deliver 'their' wanted meaning to you
so you can repeat the circle endlessly
proudly and as if sincerely
yet still be fooled
by some believer
an expert of repetition
who blessed you by grading you
it forces
it comes towards you
embalms you into relating to it
language itself never plays
it is never free
it devours humans
herds of language carriers roam
and conquer, decimate
merely talking as if to please language
yet somehow it sacrifices the human
give masks false colors-
nothing but masks
populate the surface of the social
the mask's gaze
hides not the force of
fear that turns the human face
into gaze's dead mask