Reading the poetry and prose and viewing the art and photography published here in various blogs have put me in a strange mood today; got me thinking about the tech that allows us to express ourselves so lucidly, so graphically. That and the constant barrage of gaslighting propaganda and just plain ‘hot air’ from local and national ‘talking heads’. The following is a result of that mood.

Art and War Drive Technology

Art and war not
the Art of War
by Sun Tzu
necessarily
but maybe
are the drivers
of technology in
every age

war in its search
for efficient and
devastating
killing and subjugating
tech against any who
oppose the ‘righteous’
established ‘natural’
contrived order

art seeking
efficient tech
copy and synthesize
nature
create artifices
civilization culture
‘humanities’
art

old Leonardo
personified it
art and war
they called
his age the
Renaissance
sadly without
irony

every age contrives
its ordered culture
through the tech
of art and war
fingers and art-tech
fists and war-tech
annihilation and
commentary – selah

–LE