Culture of Conceit

Culture of Conceit

A Poem by carl
"

so this is where we are....

"

Self ordained pompous prophet

while attempting to keep the truth securely hidden

you spontaneously erupt to joust unbidden 

with those who deserve superior standing.


You spar with imagined tales most obviously false

pushing the border beyond poor taste 

outmatching others with glib overstated 

extremes of parsed phrases


while seated in your insular Agora.

Reciting your assaults and victories complete

invented a step at a time flowing ever outward

to mask well the verdict of defeat.  


You rise to the heavens seeking admiration 

from listening authors who you quote having never read

and inventing thoughts they never had

all for the sake of nodding praise.


You cloak your name in various random fashions

seeking to acquire invisibility for your actions

and all the while postulating an honorable profession

and ignoring any and all accusations.


As you continue to elude deserved judgement

questions arise around mass contradictions

but are carried away with false bravado spent

before hands are raised to explain what was meant.


© 2025 carl


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Gee, I wonder who this is. You so aptly display the chaos that is he.
He is already becoming a headline a day...the way he wants it. Craving attention, certified crazy.
Your description in this is perfect...the wording is superb.
j.

Posted 1 Hour Ago


Maga for life baby!! Yeee Hawwww!!!

It blows my mind, the kind of stigma we put on cluster b personality disorders in America yet we can't stop electing people obviously suffering from at least one of these personality disorders. Some of them are severely affected and they aren't hiding it anymore. There is an escalating mental health crisis taking place in America, no one is really taking it seriously outside of the medical and leo community. "Normal" people are just burying their head in the sand and pretending like it isn't a major systemic problem at this point. In the end that will be the reason things reach a tipping point.. normies normalizing highly inappropriate behavior and rhetoric on a large scale by ignoring it for years and years and years. By ignoring it they become complicit. I had a German friend tell me a story about this one time something like that happened over there.

Posted 3 Hours Ago


(I'm not nobody. I'm just me. What you get is what you see. And nobody else I want to be. I'm not nobody I'm just me.) Yeah, I got no use for pomposity, grandeur and pedantry spouted from pseudointellectuals and propounded as superiority. Nah, pass. Big pass. :) I really liked this, the descriptive wording is great and I can feel the cadence of the piece when reading it. Great writing, Carl.

Posted 4 Hours Ago


carl

25 Minutes Ago

thank you for the read and encouragement, I can't seem to shake the negativity - I should be writing.. read more
There are so many we come across in life similar to the character you describe. Megalomaniacs with a side of narcissistic vocabulary spewing falsehoods

Posted 14 Hours Ago


Carl,
What a fine description of every politician who ever lived. Anyone who WANTS to run for public office should be immediately disqualified.
Vol

Posted 1 Day Ago


carl

23 Hours Ago

Thanks for the read and review appreciated the "vote" of confidence (lol) - and of course the charac.. read more
A powerful write and do I hear some veiled anger? We have all known people like this but I have a sense that this reference is about someone on the site. A well worded poem that is moving, Well done my friend.

Posted 1 Day Ago


carl

1 Day Ago

yep - on site is right but not this site more like the national stage was in my mind- anger? yeah pr.. read more

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I am a retired English grammar and literature teacher, married, with five grown children. I enjoy reading science fiction, fantasy, biographies, and nonfiction history and philosophy. I have a BFA in .. more..

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