Dialectical Confluence (spoken word over music with collage art)

Dialectical Confluence (spoken word over music with collage art)

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Dialectical Confluence

How does consumer demand
command imperialist pursuit?
How do imperialist pursuits,
supply consumer demand?

The silk road stretching out
through the epochs, winding between
the tumultuous twists and turns...
Veblen's invading Barbarians!
The tyranny of mercantilism!
Black Friday stampedes!

Draconian dogmas of the pious...
translated...
...asinine advertisements...
Decadence, elevated!

The Laws of Conspicuous Compassion...
....codified...clenched firm...
in the jaws of conspicuous consumption...
...commodified!

How does industrial urging
Drive the urbanite’s splurging?
Urban sprawl...
The Industrialist’s call!

The lure of city lights and wild nights...
Store windows displaying
The Great American Dream...
The land of desire...
never satiated, never enough...

Unnecessariness!

How does the capitalist provoke
The proletarian’s yoke?
And the comrade’s ideal
evoke capitalism’s appeal?

Is not the grass always greener...
than bloody red scares of mass paranoia...
and the gray smoggy skies of mass production?

The propaganda of the political machine
echoed in the rhetoric of revolutions...
inevitably usurped...
and ground up in its grinding gears!



How does the patriot’s fervor
for führer, for nation...
drive militarization?

How does militarization recruit
the dictatorship of the proletariat
to burgeoning bourgeois pursuits?

What is it that the soldiering slaves of war
seek from their mongering masters?
Perks, prestige, prowess, purpose?

Lured by the puffed up pomp...
of such a deflated circumstance?

From the forests to the farms...
arrows to arms...
from the fields of sheep and swine...
to the factory assembly lines...
Alas! bombs and land mines!

The ideology!
The fortune!
The fantasy!
The push, of the bourgeois...
into the reality...
the fate...
the pull, of the proletariat...

From one ideal to its opposite...
yoyo-ing in the perplexed minds...
fixated on the pendulum,
swinging between booms and busts...
in one instant demanding satiation
of every kind of lust...

and in the next...
picketing in the littered streets
for the laws of anti-trust!

How this four-fold tension
tightened the screws of globalization!
The reality we endure today...
the Geist of the twenty first century...
the greatest EVER zeitgeist!
haunting the whole of humankind—

The International Corporate Monopoly!
The International Government Oligarchy!

An All Pervasive Specter!