Prolonged chronic lapses in
accountability leads
devolution toward
the reward for “might makes right”
over “rule by law.”
The flaw I saw was to view
our primal animal
as constituting
a bipolar mania
of all black or white.
Humanity, we feel, is
the seal that reveals we are
independent from
all other animals due
to our nascent
morality embedded
in religiosity’s
most sacred decrees.
But, with scrutinizing eyes,
I find I’ve charted
significant behaviors
that have departed from those
decrees to expose
historically little
moral advancement
from animalistic fierce
fury as evidenced by
Putin’s Russia toward
Ukraine’s sovereignty or
Israel’s sore score
against Gaza that convinced
me to see other modern
atrocities that
cinched my resolve to truly
see a thing for what
it is, nothing more, nothing
less, to assess the level
of morality
interwoven through our
prized humanity.
Consequently, there is more
we should explore regarding
the significance
between one’s aspirations
and one’s behaviors.
Worldwide Roman Catholic
priests contrived to hide their lust
for little boys’ butts
that cuts through innocence’s trust
in childhood havens
and would be protectors dressed
as wolves in sheep’s best clothing.
Aspirations are
directors for future states
that create progress
whereas behaviors are the
dictators of real actions.
So, aspirations
are prerequisite frames to
tame animal drives
to exit concrete jungles
where battles to compete reek
of “do or die” cries
of victory or forced death.
The aspiration
to choose to cooperate
over to compete translates
into a skill set
antithetical to the
rule of “might makes right.”
Those who care and will dare to
compare humanity’s bid
for morality’s
high ground over animal
bestiality
should ruminate viewing three
cinematic productions
you’ll probably hate
for the great weight of depraved
behaviors of knaves.
Be brave; leave your comfort zone
and seek to be shown the harsh
acts that wash away
any redemption outside
extermination.
I own all three, not to be
entertained; but to be more
completely informed
and transformed into a strong
well integrated
defense against all that’s wrong
in social interactions.
My integrated,
fully functional, mature
self, related to
the chore of choosing wisely
in a world of predators,
hidden nuances,
priestly deceits, and much more,
often debated
opposing resolutions
from my cognitions and my
emotions closely
followed by intuitions
from situations
never fully understood.
In the end, Creative Arts
have facility
to infuse into me all
notions completely
and equally to feel each
simultaneously to
reach best solutions.
Cognitions void emotions
are sterile and
possibly quite vile when
empathy ceases to be
the needed sifting
boundary for critical
judgements to levy.