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I want to speak to you about my grade

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The Lyrics to my newest song, entitled, "Presocratic"

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He smelled the salt on some glorious shore when his daughter was born
but as the years passed, she reached out for him less through the rain of each terribe storm
he broke when he lost her, like waves on the ocean, though he only wanted to bend
the beginning of woman is all about water, and it's the same at the end

My father planted about ten-thousand acres on imaginary land
and I'm right there with him in a conjured up memory. I can almost feel earth in my hands
but now I am weary. My body grows older as back to the ground it descends
the beginning of a man is all about the soil, and it's the same at the end

Every seed, every flame, every drop of rain
dies for a while
and then reappears likes hopes out of fears
again and again and again

I heard muskets and cannons exploding in anger till the redcoats went home
then great minds and factories built a new power the like of which had never been known
but now in a blaze of self-righteous rage, we look in vain for our God and our friends
the beginning of a nation is all about fire, and it's the same at the end


[I sang it for Kathy and the Williams. My guess is, that'll be about it.]

In Western Civilization, many have the assumption that those who are wealthy gained their wealth through inheritance or by some unethical means. This was often a valid assumption prior to the 17th Century, meaning there was a valid basis for resentment on the part of the poor (and those who considered themselves poor).

The assumption became less valid as time went on - as the Middle Class increased and the possibility of social mobility - upward or downward - became more and more a possibility.

It is thus ironic that, as modern Socialism arose in the latter 19th Century, it's philosophical basis was less legitimate than it had ever been before.

Today, in the United States of America, if someone is wealthy, it is very likely that they are that way simply because they EARNED it - with hard work, risk, well researched investment, and a bit of good luck. If you resent them - and much more, if you want the government to punish them and redistribute their wealth - it would be wise to reconsider your opinion.

The true Robin Hoods of our own day are aiming their arrows (metaphorically speaking) at the phony rhetoric of corrupt, fat, greedy, politicians and their friends in Hollywood.

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin