ReadBev 34. Bankers & Businessmen

Bananas in Heaven  - 12/08/2015

I am blown away by the succinct explanation of human behaviour by Yuval Noah Harari on this TED talk (click link to watch… it’s only 17 minutes). Here we have a simple explanation of how we got here, how it has become possible for us to embrace the story… but now to consider why.

The photo has nothing to do with it by the way... it's just I take thousands of pics, some ok, and never do anything with them so here's an opportunity to air a few.

Bankers & Businessmen

Lie to me

and let me live your dreams.

Your dream of your yachts and your mansions,

you can have them all

because I sweat and slave

and sleep the wretched nights away

with staggering exhaustion.

Punish me

if I dare to resign or get up off my couch

with my crisps and TV where you peddle your tales

of murder and mayhem and world domination saying

“See! Speech is free! Here's BBC!”.

Ignore me

to death

as I shoulder the load of your work and ideals,

heartfelt appeals and the glazed eyes of children that

you starved and made landless

with your profiteering plunder

of the world.

Blame me

for consumption and car and cancer of the ear at my mobile phone

while I gaze from a chemical haze through my lashless lids

at your yacht on my telly as I lie on my bed.

Blame me for the terrible cost I have laid

at the door of the starving society that you,

you  have enslaved.

BS Aug15

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