If the people can be preoccupied with inessentials, the essentials can be controlled by the few. If the people can be preoccupied with the inessential differences among them, they will be further removed from their collective power.

Those in power have mastered the arts of diversion, division and the diffusion of the people’s awareness. They quickly define, defame, diminish, denounce and demean all those who threaten their power and position. Hamper-rummagers control right-wing radio.

To these spiritually challenged buffoons the appearance and personality of the messenger is all-important. They are incapable of seeing the soul or the quality of the message. Focussed on the chip of the lip of the cup, they cannot appreciate the beverage within. The true destiny of America is nowhere to be seen or heard in Republican politics.

Mischief and minutiae are constantly spewed out like a noxious gas, both engaging and fogging the critical mind of the electorate.

It is an unfortunate condition of this universe that black holes devour light.

– Raphael O’Suna, Haiku