“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
--Frank Herbert via @mariejo1965.bsky.social
Allowables. Have taught this. Best poem about racism ever. Imagine that simple compassion toward racists would be so quiet & so unanswerable. I can't.
“Medicine Buddha”
Jesus wept because he came too late
To save, his promise made but badly kept.
Chagrin the more when murder is our freight:
Jesus wept.
You’d think with all the churches small & great
No effort would be spared for the margin-swept.
Under Jesus’s gaze they rant & hate.
His birthday gloats with ev’ry dazzling prate
Money can buy, morality’s inept
Substitute; & still they mouthe his fate.
Jesus wept.
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