Entanglements embracing all

optimistic poem

 

Entanglements embracing all

 

Website by website all ready

 to defend access to the net.

Against all government’s already

trying to exert control, upset.

 

by their own inability

To keep up with the latest trends.

We threaten their stability

 and use the net for our own ends.

 

To spread the truth, reveal the lies.

Which are told all too frequently.

By those in charge who cannot see

 beyond their wish for secrecy

 

The internet will set us free.

Beyond control of government

which they admit reluctantly.

 The internet defies their intent.

 

To impose their will on us

Some one will always whistle blow

 to satisfy the curious

And tell us what we want to know.

 

The internet’s above the law.

Untamed and wild not always true

But it is better than before.
it can do as it wants to do.

 

Exchanging information

freely. As people ought to do.

Shared between every nation.

 A concept which is not new.

 

Banned in the past by governments

 who guarded secrets jealously.

 Who penalised the discontents

They could not take seriously.

 

Knowledge is power so they thought.

They gloried in their secrecy.

 All their attempts avail them naught.

the net erodes security.

 

The internet may prove to be

the greatest invention of mankind.
It will enforce transparency

on governments of every kind.

 

And lead to true democracy.

The present system was absurd.

 Led to elected tyranny

The people’s wishes were not heard.

 

I am prepared to wait and see

 If my assessment proves correct.

The speed of new technology

 I have good reason to expect

 

Will change the world drastically.

Am I a hopeless optimist?

I think perhaps that I may be

 but no one loves a pessimist

 

24/10/2009

http:// blog.my space.com/poeticpiers

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

hm well I can say I find even american government regs But Goo9gle has been making deals with companies for instance drug companies to make sure it doesnt show any online drug makers or sellers Its a joke the internet is for everyone and I for one will never use google when so many others exist
Tate