As expected, the Reddit chatter seems to favor Sam over Marantz early on. Yet I was encouraged by the growing group of people who understood what Marantz had to say, didn't dismiss him out of hand, and shared some of the feeling I have that Sam has a rather noticeable blindspot where it comes to "wokeness." Kind of ironic for the author of the Waking Up podcast.
I won't weigh in on the conversation any further than to post this for your entertainment pleasure, the title poem from my recently released collection:
Confession to the
Cockroaches
Apparently, you’ve learned to read
and come upon this volume. Know,
then:
it lead to your rise.
You might scoff: “These poems didn’t
lead the humans toward their final
war!"
But dig a little deeper.
The missiles haven’t launched yet,
but the masses have begun their
spiral.
Their vitriol grows daily.
Okay, it wasn’t just this author. It
was
the readers, too. All of us who,
unmindful,
worshiped the idol of Merit:
“of course the elite should get the
best,”
we declared, anointing ourselves
with all rights and privileges. With
crowns.
We stacked the deck, blinded by our
narrative of just rewards.
We hogged the wealth. Off-shored it.
As the masses lost livelihoods,
we only shrugged: “Their fault!
They should go to college. Get
retrained.”
As though honest work shouldn’t pay.
As though college was for everyone.
As though we deserved our good
fortune.
Already I hear the distant drumbeat.
Dumpster fires warm the whole globe.
Cheering, at the precipice.
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