Now to get to the bottom of this problem
I would suspect that we got to examine
this damning famine of human intellect.
It seems reasonable to assume that knowledge
comes from seeing patterns emerging
in our conscious mind, and what we find
when we bother to notice them
is that we know things then,
and that fate is neither cruel nor kind.
We figure out things that we didn’t know before.
We watch and listen and talk about them.
We pass down the lore.
Causation causes a sensational spate of our senses,
so we write 'em down in books, and we spare no expenses.
We try to move forward, teach it,
teach it in classes, and we try to weed out
all the unwise wise asses who’d rather stay blind,
rather fall behind, and live in the past,
dragging everybody else back past the line.

Living things may all start out slow,
but then they grow, like the rivers flow.
That’s the underpinnings of the principle of progress,
and I can not stress enough that if we rest too much,
we stagnate, our minds denigrate,
and we become a population of degenerated ingrates.
This is what happens when the ruling class rules.
They end up looking like, acting like, and playing the fools.
They don’t want to move forward, or toward anything,
but rather they want to keep things the same,
and keep anyone not white meek and tame.
Progress, to them, is a dangerous idea.
When they lose control, they lose their shit
and hemorrhage money, yelling Mea Culpa!
Well it’s their own damn fault
that they drain their vault,
grinding the pepper and licking the salt.

I abhor the decimation of the population of blacks,
and the Indians being forcibly kept on reservations
(that’s just cracked).
And our whole country has been slowly going up for sale,
And it ain’t gonna stop ‘til we’re well rid of the rich, white male.

Written by Todd Franklin Osborn
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