<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448799" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Slavery of Irony</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the Slavery of Irony<br>Illegitimate Nouns arrive<br>and the wall of Other erects<br>its own wall against<br>sins covered up<br>in the pursuit<br>a better life, middle class<br>in a zero sum<br>Stockholm Syndrome Society<br>where crumbs eat the people<br>disguised as rats<br>where rats are seen as another race entirely<br>People Rats who live off the garbage of prosperity<br>in India, in China in Mexico<br>poverty so fierce<br>that whole generations<br>are buried in the holes in the garbage<br>covered over by still more prosperity-garbage coming in<br>for the rat people to eat and sell; <br>and when they wander away for even a day<br>the are fed to the ego of passerbys<br>who blame them for smelling bad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This new feudalism is the progress of the 21st century<br>where we shall all be buried one day in our own garbage<br>and beneath that collapse that is sure to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even as the Rat People revolt and show up at our doors<br>some will say 'just a minute, will you' I need to get myself a 'latte.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</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=448799" data-title="The Slavery of Irony de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="In the Slavery of Irony Illegitimate Nouns arrive and the wall of Other erects its own wall against sins covered up in the pursuit a better life, middle class in a zero sum Stockholm Syndrome Society where crumbs eat the people disguised as rats w..."></div> </div> </div>

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