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
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4 responses to “Art and War Drive Tech”
Insightful poem, Liam. I can’t think of anything that drives people more than war and art.
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Thank you, Kat! I’m pleased you got my less than elegant vent…; -)
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Poetry need not be elegant…it’s the feelings it invokes that makes one take notice. And you did a fine job stirring the emotions. Like songs, poetry expresses itself using different voices.
I will add that as well as war and art, love/passion also drives people, especially when one is young and running on hormones. 😉
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Yes, the love/passion/ hormone observation is a good catch…; -)
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