responsibilities of “citizenry”

blanket statements are always

made, be they flippant or

completely genuine & until the

AI”s get their bugs worked out

(upon a time far in the non-

nuclear-war future), no doubt

this error in us humans will

continue.

 

so what is it to be a “citizen”

in a “country,” much less an

“empire,” that wields horror &

violence, violence & horror

all over the rest of the world?

is it enough to say

“we’re powerless…we got to

deal with things at home…those

up top have got the whole thing

rigged & there’s no way to

change things.”

 

will that suffice?

 

is it better to say that there are

those within the belly who are

sickened by the growing cancer &

who dream of a day when more

people get angry & rise up, as

we have seen happen historically,

regardless of whatever “successes”

may have been derived from the

unrest?

 

will that suffice?

 

is it better to condemn all those

who speak against the empire, who

speak against those doing its bidding,

who are angered & whether they are

actively resisting from within or

holding it all inside for hopes of a

greater explosion in the near future?

 

will that suffice?

 

for if you point your finger at a country

& you say they are responsible for the

terrifying deeds that you have mounds

of evidence suggesting that they are

solely the cause of, you single out no one

&

then those who speak quick

point the finger at you & say

“how dare you accuse john-&-jenny-Q-

do-nothing of being part of the mania!”

&

that all those folks haven’t a thing to do

with what their country does, because

said nation seems to act of its own volition,

with the small room & the conspiracy &

the moneyed interests & the lust for

blood & the want for the status quo to

keep on spinning & spinning.

 

will that suffice?

 

is it better to acknowledge that all humans

were condemned to be born wherever it was

that they fell out of the whom & all

supposed allegiances which they are supposed

to hold, in regards to the when-where-who-how,

are simply layers of the onion which one

needs to peel off themselves in order to

focus their energy, strength & anger upon those

in ANY place whose actions show us all

just exactly who has it out for the species,

just exactly who is doing their best to drive the

rest of us under?

&

supposing this was the case...

wouldn’t everyone, everywhere, be responsible

for everything that happens?

 

yet nothing is sufficient, is it?