How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Monday, May 13, 2013

Civil War II, or the Parameters of Doom

Take a considerable number of angry citizens
almost all of them white
almost all of them with guns;

give them a coloring book education
emphasizing mythology over history
simplicity over complexity
with the Bible as Final Word;

add so much paranoid anticipation
of government aggression that they buy
military assault weapons for defense;

add a profound ignorance of
and resulting distrust of science;

add corporate sponsors who understand
that funding ignorance can help
their bottom lines;

add a yellow-bellied university system
that lets moronic discourse continue unchallenged;

add well meaning, reasonably smart
citizens who take none of this seriously
and therefore see no threat;

wait for the inciting incident
the match put to all this gasoline

and then run like hell