"The Buddha said, 'We suffer because we desire. If you give up desire, you won't suffer.' But he didn't say that as a last word. He said that as the opening step in a dialogue because if you say that to someone, they're going to come back after a while and say, 'Yes, but now I'm desiring not to desire.' And so the Buddha will answer, 'Well at last! You're beginning to understand the point.'" — Alan Watts
Beyond the arenas and the jungles of empty malls,
you may be able to see the
United States of America,
looking to avenge the poor, needy, and helpless,
and not the fleets of fully automatics
pushing people around,
caging children for something they cannot control.
'We're just following orders,'
that's what the followers of Adolf said,
but Nuremberg Trials cried 'BULLSHIT!'
We have a desire to fix things,
but when the wrong person
uses the right means,
the right means work
in the wrong way.
There's no need to escalate
when we're already too late.
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