Monday, December 29, 2008

Blind Walls

“Voting is for fags
For us, we believe in our leaders
What is a commoner like me compared to the experienced and wise leaders we have?
Bread, bills, rent, that’s what I worry about
A people like ours doesn’t even deserve to have its own say
Why, we would be at each others’ throats until we wipe each other out
We have agreed to disagree
Democracy shmocracy who has time for that nonsense?
It’s all part of a western plot to brainwash us and occupy our lands
All those satellite news channels are part of the plot too, you know
But I mock them by watching soccer instead
Thank God for the West
They were created to serve us
They work hard all day long to invent technology
When they’re done we put it right in our living rooms
All this, because of the wisdom of our leaders
For us we don’t need too much outside learning
All the knowledge is in the holy texts
You just read and you know
Even if you don’t know that you know, but you know
That’s why we believe in our leaders
They, better than anyone, know”

(Painting by Thomas Clyde)