RE: Avatar Glitches, New Poetry, Digital Art and Photography
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As many times as we end up re-creating ourselves as a species - or as a society - we continue to repeat the same issues... well.. repeatedly. 😃 (Yes, that was a term from the Department of Redundancy Department)
Look at the Roman Empire. It grew until it collapsed on itself in its decadency, self-importance, and weight of bureaucracy. And the people who populated the empire? Those we had the power within it grew self-important and self-righteous until they deluded themselves that only their beliefs were correct and were blinded by outside change.
Look at the British Empire! It grew until it collapsed on itself in its decadency, self-importance, and weight of bureaucracy. And the people who populated the empire? (and so on)
Look at the United States! (and so on)
I'm sure this isn't what was on your mind when you wrote the poem, but it speaks to me about the cyclic nature of human nature. We'll get it right sometime, soon as we accept that we won't. 😀
Perhaps we like nature are bound to seasons and thus we have the winter of discontent ... lol ... why it is so heavy being Gen X, I guess.