<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460764" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0309 Eeyore's view of the State of the Nation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you build a great nation<br>on the statement<br>‘In God we trust’<br>and then proceed<br>to deny that in your actions, <br>in your thinking, <br>you start to believe in<br>the primacy of materialism, physical substance<br>like, say, drugs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and subtly<br>minds adapt to the idea<br>that drugs solve all –<br>to aid backward children, <br>to quieten teenagers, <br>to make prisoners docile, <br>to make mad people docile, <br>to keep soldiers brave, <br>to bomb your enemies, <br>to stimulate sex life, <br>to keep people ‘happy’<br>or if not happy, then outasite, <br>and if they’re down, <br>get them up, and<br>if they’re up, get them down<br>and if they’re dying, <br>make it peaceful</div><div style="margin:10px 0">well it works, <br>doesn’t it? <br>the only side-effects<br>which we don’t look into<br>very carefully<br>are to<br>humanity and stuff</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but no-one asks me<br>said Eeyore</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460764" data-title="0309 Eeyore's view of the State of the Nation de Michael Shepherd" data-description="If you build a great nation on the statement ‘In God we trust’ and then proceed to deny that in your actions, in your thinking, you start to believe in the primacy of materialism, physical substance like, say, drugs and subtly minds adapt t..."></div> </div> </div>

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