<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424859" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Compromise Culture 1449</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Culture based on listless lackeys tries<br>exploiting basic instincts, fails to thrive.<br>Conniving skyvers harm harmonious hive, <br>antagonistic feast, with furtive eyes<br>divided between jealousy, surprise.<br>Mediocrity sets goals but can't survive, <br>stagnating or backtracking, must contrive<br>expedience, manipulation, lies, <br>losing face, disgrace must realize<br>that fragile struggles, space to stay alive, <br>depends much less on effort or on drive<br>than selflessness that spurns sly compromise.<br>Priorities protecting selfish rights<br>sacrifice ethics, signal sleepless nights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fragility in public sphere is found<br>duplicated in the population; <br>lopsided give and take's mistaken, bound<br>to fail time's test upon examination.<br>Temptation stretches tentacles across<br>vital societal fabric, leaves one wan, <br>alone to draw protective veil while boss<br>whips wealth, strips health from poor, whose tale's soon done.<br>Persuasion's kin is rank manipulation<br>of mind or vote. Too few intact remain.<br>Who'd rock the boat's confined in isolation, <br>cost high, salvation lost, what salves their pain? <br>Vulnerable today, tomorrow seems<br>to rend men mediocre from spent dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(13 May 2012)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424859" data-title="Compromise Culture 1449 de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Culture based on listless lackeys tries exploiting basic instincts, fails to thrive. Conniving skyvers harm harmonious hive, antagonistic feast, with furtive eyes divided between jealousy, surprise. Mediocrity sets goals but can't survive, stagn..."></div> </div> </div>

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