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So Much Beauty

So Much Beauty

there’s so much beauty
in the world all around
but I find it difficult
to praise it with all
the poverty and pain
that abounds

gazing at sun-drenched landscapes
with mountain vistas
fading in the distance
brush and critter-filled riverbed
winding north
the path of least resistance

social and economic promise
is nothing but bleak
while the apex-predator
the ‘elite’ of the human freaks
guts the beauty
for greed’s sake

time for a new paradigm
community and nature
extolled as prime
rather than greedy self-interest
of the psycho-sociopath kind
ruling class
cognitive dissonance

there’s so much beauty
in the world all around
but difficult to praise
with all the poverty and pain
it will worsen if we don’t
make a profound course change

–LE

Sweetwater Wetlands Tucson –LE

Liam Eddy

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9 responses to “So Much Beauty”

  1. I don’t see much ever changing regarding the horde of have-nots and the tiny minority of haves. It has always been this way. And socialism or communism isn’t the answer; it just makes things worse. I’ve read in quite a few places that Putin is the richest man in the world. People rise to power, and they get greedy. I still think capitalism is the way to go. At lest people have a chance to better their financial situation. My husband and I did so with only high school diplomas and hard work.

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    • Don’t worry, I’m not trying to extole the virtues of ‘socialism’ (state capitalism as apposed to privat capitalism like in the US) or ‘communism’ (which has only existed in small monasteries and tiny communities in history – never as a national systme), The only thing that would work is a resource based economy. And that would take a major retininking of industry and social economy… which doesn’t seem likely, at least in my or my childrens lifetimes… The poem is merely my observations and commentary on what I’m seeing…; -)

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      • Ok, but now I need to be technical and concise. We in the west with cold war propaganda called those countries ‘communist’. They have always referred to themselves as ‘socialist republics’ or some variation thereof. They were always (supposedly) working toward a true communism. None of them ever achieved it. What they actually had was their version of socialism, which was literally ‘state capitalism’ rather than the private capitalism that we practiced here in the US and western Europe. A system where the organs of production were owned by the state rather than privately. But the economic system was capitalist none the less. And yes, their capitalism failed, but the Chinese may not, since it incorporated both state and private enterprises in the ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’. Only time will tell, but so far they and the ‘BRICS’ are economically beating us soundly…; -)

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