Will you Still Call it Freedom?

In the New America, everything is a poor reflection of its former self - a faded photograph, in a memory box, covered in dust and dropping in neglect. Every revolutionary pillar of our state, felled like so many concrete Saddams; only to be replaced with meaningless mantras and illustrious illusions. Everyone knows this, they just don't realize that whipping the scapegoats only entices the wolves. Ideals vs. Reality, round 1,033, somehow it won't end in self-destruction and dehumanization this time...some how...

We all know the truth but speak in lies to prop up this lead balloon that's already breaking our backs. Will you still call it freedom when you're cowering in your home, wishing you had stood for something; wishing you weren't responsible for the Hellscape that will be all your descendants will ever know? 

Author's Note

5/22/14

Reviews

[terry smith]

Freedom is a fairy tale and always has been....since the dawn of man...only the illusion of freedom looks real from time to time.

[Jonny The Savage]

Illusions/ideals are often what lead men to their deaths.

[B]

The more they delude the public
consuming them in making money
and earning bread
no one can think for themselves
Karl Marx and Machavelli
Any text they have written is an eye opener
on the economics engine ..... eating up the vary soul of humanity

Yet very few
have light within
to learn of what matters
and make it matter

bravo ..... totally enticing thought here :)

[Jonny The Savage]

Exactly, the truth is like a single drop of food dye in an ocean of water these days,
It's just because it makes everything defines in physical terms and only physical terms.
Niccolo was one of the most eye opening writers I've ever read.
It's sad, isn't it? Seeing what others cannot, or perhaps refuse to.
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :D

[B]

but mind you he is brutal
but i love him
some think he is evil
i dont see that
he could lean towards evil to just provoke the reader
but anyone that speaks that honestly can not possibly hold a grain of evil within
but some people are just dense in interpreting his work
it really gets me

[Jonny The Savage]

Some people just cannot understand what is being said to them even if it's said a billion times.

[B]

i know
what to do lol

[Jonny The Savage]

I guess say things a billion times :P

[B]

or just let them learn at their own pace
let it be

[Jonny The Savage]

Well that's how the Universe works, after all.
Knowledge comes to those that seek it, but only when they're ready to understand it.

[B]

yes
and some people are too fast for my tiny old slow brain
lol
i am like the analog computer in the world of ttfn and tyt and lmao

[Jonny The Savage]

It's not so much fast as mishmash.
I know the feeling..
He said while listening to a talk radio show from the 90's and a playing a video game from '95 on the Super Nintendo.

[B]

i love super nintendo
and sega
and game gear

i am getting a monitor with high resolution at home
so i can start playing games after school
i come back so dead
i need the switch off
my clarinet is arriving soon
and i am making a sort of flower nursery at home
i am so old lol

[Jonny The Savage]

Haha I still have both versions of the original Nintendo. The "Toaster" and the awesome one.
I think awesome is a better adjective :P

[B]

the toaster lol
oh my
i miss pac man
seriously lol

[Jonny The Savage]

haha it was a different era right?
Games nowadays try too hard to be bad movies.
And don't even succeed at being fun.
It's really sad that people buy it again and again.
Redefining what "good" is.
While I just keep collecting what has been forgotten, feeling like I've just won the lottery.

[B]

i know exactly how you feel
its like stuff thrown out for scrap and i am like are you all serious
this is not garbage

[Jonny The Savage]

That's because people seem so disconnected with the past these days.
Too conditioned to believe that it's only the newest that matters.
Fools.

[B]

Fools in gold lol

[Jonny The Savage]

haha don'tcha love how you can dress up idiocy these days...
And people will buy it like it's just as good as knowledge?
But the tv said to...

[B]

lol
tv i swear that thing destroyed people

[Jonny The Savage]

haha you're right.
It seems like our consciousness went downhill since the tele came into the picture.
Just look at the quality of writing/films/etc in the last half century or so.
Such a difference compared to a half century and a few decades.

[B]

True
Tv deludes the mind and it really is more harmful than any good use that can come out of it
i say use it 30 mins a day
and the rest of the day live your life
and that also goes for the telephone
it hurts so many people's feelings
might as well throw it out

[Jonny The Savage]

It really is.
People really don't understand the effect that what they allow into their consciousness defines their consciousness.
It's really too bad that people actually believe that living a life vicariously is a life well spent.
Otherwise, maybe that could happen.

[B]

I couldnt have said better
Bravo Monsieur

[Jonny The Savage]

Merci, merci Madame.
And without you it never would have been said.