Normalized

How can civilized,
civilians act uncivil?
Obey the command.

What purveys power?
The tendency to cower;
supply and demand.

Uniformity,
peer pressure yields crowd control.
The outcome is planned.

Consensus circus;
The death of critical thought.
Dissent shall be banned.

Amygdaelic twist:
Fear that which threatens power.
Whose cannon is manned?

The scared make the scarred,
The door to death left ajarred.
Soul bittered from bland.

By these means the fiends,
play simon says with a Pres.
Now you understand.

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