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Anatomy of Conspiracy
(Sonnet 2094-2095)
The biggest conspiracy
in the world is to make people
think that there is a conspiracy,
because when people believe
in conspiracy, they get paranoid,
and a paranoid population is the ideal
consumer for various soothsaying items,
from guns, bombs and nuclear weapons,
to crystals, chemtrails, chakras,
magnets, gemstones, ouija, racial purity,
and plots of land in the afterlife.
Now, some of these items and ideas may be
harmless, others downright villainous,
but they are all part and parcel of
an insecure primate's pursuit for control -
delusional though such control may be.
Conspiracy, superstition, conventional
or newage, it's all about control,
either self-inflicted or institutionalized -
you are searching for order where there
is none, so your brain cooks up one,
just to keep you satisfied - and you
start seeing faces in the clouds,
or patterns in your star charts.
Keep your mind open, just not so open
that your brain starts leaking -
an empty attic is a primate's olympus.
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