Outrage is fine, as long as it follows the consensus

I'm so angry!

Do you find those online ranters annoying? The serial protesters. Do some just take it too far?

Some causes are popular, others not. ie, Pro Palestinian versus against antisemitism. 

(Shouldn't be any reason why people can't support both. Jews worldwide are not responsible or even support, what the Israeli government does. It's like saying all Westerners worldwide are responsible for the actions of the American Government). 

Hence this poem, which was actually written in 2018 and nothing to do with the aforementioned example. It's part of it anyway. What matters in your interpretation. 

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No Hawkers Please

 

Survey Wreckage

No need to record evidence

Imprinted like an engraved tablet.

 

A mish-mash attempt

At a human Undo

That can never be.

 

Undercover of darkness

And booze

There’s no recourse

No recriminations

A mere satisfaction

In stirring the pot

Grinding hypocrisy

Under heel.

 

Until tomorrow

Brings the sting of daylight

Eradicating shadows

Leaving no hideaway.

 

Popularism survives

And in the end

I lost

Truth, context

And the Individualistic way

Not Required Here.

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When I was young, I was also very idealistic. That's normal for many young people. I saw the world in black and white. Very pro Gay, anti-apartheid, pro-Aboriginal people, anti-nukes, etc. Many protests too.

(I still care about those issues of course. It's not the point).

I'm a Humanist, rather than set on any particular agenda. Whenever there's injustice or someone suffering, I feel for them or that issue. Some are very hardcore on a particular theme, and neglect to be aware of their own hatred of others, or the injustice that might occur in carrying out their agendas. Like the example mentioned at the top. 

Far right and far left extremism are the same. Some issues are very apparent yet the world is more grey than extreme. There's more than one side. There's twenty. The media rarely go into detail or present more than one side. (I've worked in news and current affairs so aware of how much research etc is actually done, and how each media outlet, especially today, are biased towards a particular political leaning).

It's such a big topic, and you have you're own viewpoint and perhaps that's getting away from the poem which is really about individual thought, so will just leave it at that. 

Now I'm going on. Is that a rant?  Ha ha God I hope not.  🙂

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Up and coming, 

A man in Paradise is determined to take his own life, in Tropical Conviction, a Video

Based on a real, personal experience. 

Me in Thailand, 1991, where I met him.
He may have actually taken the photo as I was on my own.

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Until next time,

Peace and Love to you.

Anthony