War is Salmon

I had originally set out to write the next 1984, but I quickly realized that for us, war was not only peace; but it was also salmon. It might not take a brilliant man to notice that a permanent war is peace, because it is a literal immolation of a country's surplus, but even the wisest of us struggle to see that nothing means anything any more; the epitome of smoke, mirrors and snake oil. So it's not difficult to see that war is salmon, in a time so ludicrous that the same administration that ran guns to a Mexican cartel, to eviscerate their competition, is also trying to pry them out of their citizens' hands. The same press that divulged talking points derived by the intelligence community and presented them as journalism about Benghazi...for eight months...and no one has even the slightest question about their journalistic integrity...

It's a rather insane time to live, when any sane man may ordain that war is salmon. 

Author's Note

5/23/13

Reviews

[B]

I like how you make this link of war and salmon
I wonder of its tie here
An aquaculture species
Capable of being thrown into any water and surviving
Note Salmon exists in the coldest of places to the slightly warmer rivers

One wonders
Are we all fighting all the time
Has fighting become a way of living

Versus extending an understanding unspoken towards others that we do now know
And have come to wish well irrespective of whether we are in the same boat or not
Truly appreciating acts of kindness for no soul came uncovered
Learning to live in peace with a heart anywhere it might be or it might go

Humanity is extremely hard to touch
And to acquire
not every breathing man is human

[Jonny The Savage]

haha I hadn't even thought about it in that regard.
It was just sort of a random thought. read morehaha I hadn't even thought about it in that regard.
It was just sort of a random thought.
That does make it sound a lot better though lol.

We fight to live.
We live to fight.

You're 10,000% correct here.

That's a theme I touch on all the time in my writing.
It's really too bad, the monsters some people become.

[B]

i make weird links
my brain just works like that
i try to tie everything together

[Jonny The Savage]

That's cause everything spiderwebs into everything else.
Only ignorance exists in void.

[B]

true
lol
and my brain does it so fast
i freak out lol

[Jonny The Savage]

haha mine does too but I never freak out.
I'm generally like...wait a minute...what if...

[B]

lol
i draw ideas
i cant think in words
so i draw everything and lines ta da
read morelol
i draw ideas
i cant think in words
so i draw everything and lines ta da
the link is here lol

[Jonny The Savage]

haha I think only in words really, it's hard to remember memories in anything but words and vague images for me.
I think it's probably one of the reasons I can write them down so well.
That and starting a journal like 7-8 years ago and running from there to poetry and other literary and prose works.
It's been a fun journey, and it's far from over.

[B]

i think most poets start with a journal
i have a million at home
but eventually your words turn into images

[Jonny The Savage]

And then those images, picture books.
And those picture books eventually into films.

[B]

Waw yeah
i never made that link :P

[Jonny The Savage]

haha I thought it was a kinda cool metaphor :P