I am concerned about the path that the human race is taking in attitudes towards people in comparison to attitudes towards 'things'. This is also signalled by the glorification of people for quite spurious reasons. For example, people who have a bright idea, publicise it on the internet which then attracts advertising and considerable income. In itself not a bad thing but then to 'worship' them as icons is a worry.
Insidious Idols
We used to be told not to worship false
gods,
as society has developed - well what
are the odds,
probably because of the deprivations
of war,
deifying what we could make or what we saw.
Could explain the growth of pop
music,
and the need to see oneself as
authentic,
the age of free love and flower
power,
and the tendency to live hour by
hour.
It wasn’t long before the whole nation
was changed,
a country altered in a matriarchal exchange,
rewarding disciples of fiscal manipulation,
signalled by shiny, artefact acquisition.
A deity that pertains forty years on,
order weakened by what it’s dependent upon,
worship of money, holidays and technology,
weakening the stuff that underpins society.
Nothing will improve until idols are burned,
and the love of humanity is again returned,
we’re in a fight to change human perspective,
to deny the need for the shiny elective.
©David L Atkinson September 2024
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