Hedges on corporate power

I find myself imagining him somehow optimistic.
It is not our ignorance or greed that fails us.
It is our perfect vulnerability to what is called evil,
What always underlies: an aspect of inhumane nature.

We live to kill, to consume, to fuck and again, kill.
Rape, consume, exploit all the while we (or "they")
manufacture our consent for our own slavery.
Or with cruel spite fucks with coke & all of us whores
for casual violence. Arms laden international environment
of corporate death.While we appear “entertained”

We act as if this was not going on for the past 200 years.
And rightly or insane as ghetto Jews we argue against
violence as our brothers sharpen their knives
and no longer pretend to smile. . .

I remember being a child in the 70’s
knowing with certainty that our destruction
started long before I was born, the seeds of our
callous failure of humanity lie in the imperial
past, in the roots of empire the rot is there. In
slavery, in genocide and from the old lands we brought
them here.God knows the our own debt,
slavery and karma of the local people,
we are venal in our souls
I’m both ashamed.