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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ythOLteROK0&ab_channel=UNM

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And with a philosophical flourish

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Order is restored.

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A shame, 

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For now the rich will get richer,

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Politicians will parade

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And the poor, 

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The poor will be forced again to flag down 

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UN convoys, documentary news-crews,

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Foreign correspondents, 

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Opening their gums to the empty air

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And flashing toothless smiles for the shutter-stop

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Of propagandized-paparazzi cameras,

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Hoping that they, too, 

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Have voices to be heard,

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Faces to be seen -

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Amidst slum housing, segregated,

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Compartmentalized by section eight,

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By Indian Acts and placative bills,

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By socio-economic apartheid.

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And all the while, attending western schools

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Where it is to be taught that debt might set them free,

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That there is sanctuary in service, welcome for the tempest tossed,

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And merit, value, hidden and glinting for their eyes alone

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Amidst the age-old latency of the American-dream

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And the concrete jungles that grow ever closer

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To a state of the insatiable, and the all consuming.

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Author's Note

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzs_0yqTuvI&ab_channel=Chomsky%27sPhilosophy