American Carnage from Thoughts & Prayers by art.dmg

Captured people and stolen land built this nation and helped it expand.
We now cast our eyes to the next frontier, to abandon this Earth and its atmosphere. Coagulate wealth will never last without circulation by the natural caste. At war with ourselves, with the disenfranchised: capital’s cancer metastasized. The framers, they warned us of tyrants & kings but could they have ever expected these things? An arsenal assured by ideological faith: our absolute right to annihilate.

American carnage, habitualized suffering.
A flame in the darkness flickering, guttering.

What about separation of power? What about balance or checks?
What about the INFOSEC PARAMIL industrial complex?
What about bureaucracy that cultivates recidivism?
What about cultural structures that sustain racism?
How come radicalized privilege is the state of affairs?
Why is the best we can offer merely thoughts and prayers?

American carnage, habitualized suffering.
A flame in the darkness flickering, guttering.

The others aren’t people, they’re abnormal and weird;
exotic desires or thugs to be feared. And when they show pride in their beautiful face, they need to be taught; to be put in their place.
Our exceptional precept of Aquinas’s law: the patriot’s doctrine of pure shock and awe.

Is all that remains adversity, willful ignorance or uncertainty?
Survival depends on struggle & strife.
And civil discourse has been weaponized.

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