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American Political Correctness, 2019

It wears the mask of kindness;
about equalizing things
it knows a thing or two.
Any superiority of skill
amounts to ill will,
amounts to arrogance on the other’s part.
It’s almost as though excellence alone
must apologize or atone,
must show a benighted heart.

It has slithered into
many, many universities…
There it shows another face:
excellence or what is best
has been shunned, swept aside
in favor of a group long oppressed.
The forgettable has swept aside
Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare.
The long oppressed won’t be denied…

Yet nature, too, can’t be denied.
Superiority of strength is clear.
The cheetah is swiftest, and the lion
is much stronger than the deer.
I guess nature can but appall;
it doesn’t even deign to reply
nor cares for the hurt feelings
that we may voice, you and I…

Brothers and sisters we are, yes:
there’s something within us that unites us all.
But diversity that’s celebrated
for its own sake and above all
is perversity, it is envy’s knife
directed to putting an end
to the wonders of the world, to all
all that’s beautiful, excellent in life.
Excellence alone is the wine and ice;
it is the beloved alone that will do
or its own country that will suffice.

Brothers and sisters, we are one – and yet
it’s not presumptuousness or conceit
to say that skillwise or talentwise,
Shakespeare or Mozart we’ll never meet,
that not all children of the source are gold,
that many are silver or bronze (or less),
that this wave of diversity, equality,
this multiculturalism is nothingness.

What’s the maturity out of this mess?
It’s to know that while there are a few –
maybe more – who are much better than you
at their particular passion or what they do,
they needn’t be the source of your unhappiness…
(You, probably, are the source of your unhappiness.)
You can try something different: allow
yourself, in looking toward your superiors,
allow yourself the space to learn, to trace the arcs
of those lofty heights secretly admired.
Your life can be changed by being inspired.

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  1. A very thought provoking write. It speaks truths that can be related to. I enjoyed the read.

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