If you build a great nation <br />on the statement <br />‘In God we trust’ <br />and then proceed <br />to deny that in your actions, <br />in your thinking, <br />you start to believe in <br />the primacy of materialism, physical substance <br />like, say, drugs <br /> <br />and subtly <br />minds adapt to the idea <br />that drugs solve all – <br />to aid backward children, <br />to quieten teenagers, <br />to make prisoners docile, <br />to make mad people docile, <br />to keep soldiers brave, <br />to bomb your enemies, <br />to stimulate sex life, <br />to keep people ‘happy’ <br />or if not happy, then outasite, <br />and if they’re down, <br />get them up, and <br />if they’re up, get them down <br />and if they’re dying, <br />make it peaceful <br /> <br />well it works, <br />doesn’t it? <br />the only side-effects <br />which we don’t look into <br />very carefully <br />are to <br />humanity and stuff <br /> <br />but no-one asks me <br />said Eeyore<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0309-eeyore-s-view-of-the-state-of-the-nation/
