In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed are Kings

[Billy Burnett]

Run time: 03:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utX1PN4fSG4   Posted on YouTube: October 30, 2007 By YouTube Member: pepinoazul Views on YouTube: 22210   Posted on DU: January 30, 2011 By DU Member: Billy Burnett Views on DU: 298

 

If it were within,
within our power
beyond the reach
of slavish pride,
to no-longer
harbour grievances
behind the mask's
opportunists facade,

we could welcome responsibility
like a long lost friend
and re-establish laughter
in the doll's house once again.

For time has imprisoned us
in the order of our years
in the discipline of our ways
and in the passing of momentary stillness

You can see our chaos in motion
our chaos in motion
We can view our chaos in motion
view our chaos in motion...



...and the subsequent collisions of fools
well-versed in the subtle art of slavery.

[saras]

1. H. G. Wells...

wrote an excellent short story called "The Country of the Blind".

spoiler alert:

the theme of the story is that, given what he saw as human nature,
in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man will have his eye put out.