Working poverty can be a form of slavery. Vassalage, astronomy, mathematics, and monumental architecture all came with civilization. State religion and taxes follow

Current civilization is an economic phenomena and will fall with the economy leading to a break down into earlier social groupings. Causes of the fall were sown in the rise. Culture is an abstract concept.

It changes and adapts but not always well. Culture is an adaptation to the circumstances of its members. 

Reconstruction

Reconstruction

 400,000 Union dead; 300,000 Confederate dead. April 1^st 1865, Lee was outflanked by Grant West of the town, Richmond falls. The Appomattox surrender follows on April 9^th. Reconstruction begins, and lasts 12 years. The 13^th Amendment is ratified. Land ownership was seen as the key to having position in society. Northerners did not think the former slaves would work. Why not enjoy your first break for your unpaid hundreds of years of labor?

Southerners are said to have made a pact among themselves to not sell land to blacks. The slave system did not die with the war. Black Codes were promptly voted into law. Congress acted swiftly and tried to get rid of the Black Codes. Moderates were concerned with over-use of federal power. 14^th Amendment gives citizenship to people born in the US. Section 2 of the Amendment says that any state that denies rights will ave its representation reduced. 15^th Amendment passed and the right to vote given to all males over 21. South is seen as a constant problem.

'Reconciliation' movement begins. The North turns to the so called 'better class' in the South to solve problems. Memorial Day was set up to honor civil war veterans. Orations celebrated the heroism of veterans without reference to the ideas that started the war. A former union general called the eventual withdrawal from the south 'the birth of constitutionalism'. A former confederate general says that slavery had nothing to do with the war. The south wanted to be free enough to oppress others. Segregation is enshrined into law. Douglas tells his successors to agitate. 

In the Shamanic Shadow

The soldiers line up to die in battle

Erased, replaced, displaced

Here the Freemen are a variety of slave to the race

A game of nations to rise to ephemeral greatness

Below scorching gamma rays and the ever-turning Wheel of Cosmic Fates

The blood feeds the soil

Where bodies are broken in endless toil

The flesh replicants reproduce

While men laugh and make merry to the noose

Gallows humor of those who wait for the final episode of extinction

Minds lost to the gears and treads of consciousness mechanization

The noise of primal rage feeds their dance

Against order and drill- the way of the bloody lance

Nuclear ashes to nuclear ashes; stardust to stardust

Ethics is the domain of the purely corrupt

The teachers lie while priests dare the brave to defy

The Will of a god fashioned by those self-same task masters

Praying to the air to avert the coming disasters

Winds carry the supplications

While humanity loses itself in empty Ego Libation

Parrot patriots ignore the parable of the parabola

Pissing in the decay of paradise

While static screams are the zeitgeist

Begotten besotten a generation in psychotic Dysgenesis

While in pallid failure hangs the absent savior as a Nemesis

From the waters arise

The gods of the end of time

While the paragons of greed wallow in the crimes

The mulling masses are diluting their minds

With the strong fruit of the vine

On the serrated edge of sanity

Dancing with diced feet, around the corpse of vanity

They go into the navel of the night

An obsessive regression

An addiction past reason is a mental oppression

Phases of Orphic rites

endless return even in this life

Weakened and weeping

Begging his soul for reaping

Christ is Late for the 2nd Coming

Welcome to the Holocene Eschaton

Tripping from the vapors, the blood is running cold

Reptilian mind seeking after the divine.

Wrathful at the ends of it's age

Green-eyed and with scaled skin

Blind like justice

Stalking with a hatred of its own mammal's flesh

To those fires engulfing man! To the funeral pyre.

This sixth great extinction will end itself.

Lucid, a moment of clarity.

Tattooed on the doomed are the deeds on their hearts

Brahma assigns the parts

The Deeds are sold.

As are all the treasures of old

To see the beast as a kindred dragon

In the caverns

With the shadow of the Buddha still shown on atop a pile of human bones

Here Mohammed as pressed and the Dijal waits....

The Oracle bones are thrown

Lacking and nonsensical are the world of fate

Seeking Delphi to ask

“What can god do that he hasn't?”

A nightmare

Broken dreams and dead loves

Rent attachments

Faceless and with the forgotten

who have Iost the will

To ride the carousel

All I see is the same blur

In my heart nothing stirs

Incense only covers the stink

Amor Fati

Amor Fati

Weeping wrathful the wanderer wearies of his wisdom

Drinking Dreary draughts to deaden the denouement

Somas’ sight this selfish Sophist sought

For fallen Forms frolicking feverishly in fearful freedom

-Grossly goes God to the grieving grave

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna to the highest.

Glory, Glory- He's gone the ghost!

But Before bastards even the best are bashful

Aspirants argue Agnostic about aristocracy

The Optimum are oblivious in Opiates

Instinct Inducing Indic inspiration

The Demos a damned demon defying a dead decency

A painful pleasure is the passing peace

For Living is a labor losing luster

A moving moment missing meaning

Tackling Time; a tedious tasking

Running rough and rugged the raft rages

Alone across an ambient absolute Abyss

A crazing craving endlessly increasing

Exceptionally exiling excellent Xandu

A deepening darkness does the duty

Masterful melancholy makes a mockery of the merriment

And a merry malevolence Mephisto makes...

The rays Recurrent radiance repeats remorse

A Dreadful indifference defends the deed

For the gold and glory I have gone gaunt and gory

With A Heavy halberd halting hell

Now nearing nihilism neighs its nefarious notes

And a smallish snare sinks the ship

 shifty souls shallow shield

Are the frequented friendly faces

For Here the haughty hopes hearken high

Clasping no crutch the cries become clear

-Do we thus drown in the deep?

Drunken and dumb, he dares death!

Sick of solitudes silly songs

And longing likewise for a like mind

Missing most a man makes ready to die

A Pitiless pain plays the pied piper

Reaping and wrought receiving naught

Sapped of strength a souls seen sleeping

Scything simply the seven silly seals

Weary of wisdom he wakes his weeping…….

Schizoid Break

Schizoid Break

I miss aloneness

It is more agreeable to me than this intolerable closeness

flecks of meek affection rising in my spirit

That I will drown with the irresponsible consumption of strong spirits

Full of so much hate

I cannot see straight

When I found that men were nowhere free

Call this solipsism anarchy

Some of us are a law onto themselves

To face to consequences and never cede my will

An unbroken power

That destroys all that cowers

The pen is bleeding

In honor of tears I cannot cry

not even when my mother dies

A problem with drinking

Mine is only one of thinking

Not the bottle

But what is bottled

Living in my head

In the fields of the undead

Never so bold

As when one has grown cold

Don't pull me from this