House of Paine

mores vs morals

the vile paradox :

(ie contradiction viewed statically)

either 
our morals tighten 
       as our mores loosen

or 
our morals loosen 
as our mores tighten  




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 yes fellow  americans
   today we except 
 what in Ikes day 
we daren't 
         even believe happened

here in the land of freedom

that is of course
outside of maximum security prisons
  loony binz 
and maybe
certain advanced sections 
        of  
         san fransico
             and manhattan

and yet our kulture  politics 
is as raw
 and fractious as ever
                
              hey maybe even a little more so...
 
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the kulture boundary 
between whats right and whats not 
has moved considerably in 50 years 
but the adge  is still a wicked 
                            twister 

a battle ground 

 but then
      so what 

 long as the movement is still forward
toward the looser



which it iz 
at least 
 in many spot lighted dimensions 
of our social activity 

i won't bore you with the vast system
 of tightenings and loosenings 
that are always going down 
simultaneously
in any social system

 easy sex /tight diet 

less labor /more exercise 

but that's shallow hal speak

it don't get the full story  right 

the entire ensemmble is the real deal 

like the muscle system in motion

some parts contract while others stretch


the problem 
is there's no problem

its really
just " easy does it "
                 politics


whip up support 
by polarizationof uz damn  fools

childs play


take the GOP 

making a stern fuss
as we drift away 
from one OLD TIME standard 
                       after another

looser looser looser we get 

all the while

folks is feelin

"gonna snap back here 
   gonna and better "

till  zink
we do snap back

but thats some day out ahead
not today 

today we boast and puff 

kool


and 
 its so cheap 

 jesus geeper loyality 
   is won 
to the elephant party

and simply 
by mouthing praise
for
a few long over roasted 
    familly chestnuts 
that and 
  zapping a few dark folks
just to prove we mean bidnezz 

thats near costless
and 
its all thats needed
to qualify as 
 standing up 
for the old ways and means

bottom line of bottom lines
it costs wall street  nothing 

not even personal compliance 


unless that is
larry flynt
    gets a whiff
      of whats floatin in your fan tail 


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p.s. problem in a binary system
 
if the other guys beat you to the punch
you're left with
  either 
me not 
or
 me to

and 
 in the taste test 

warm zippy 
familiar flavors 
win every time 

if the  republicans 
got the winning flavor
the old timee cracker barrel taste

the  hearty 
cola party flavor



then shit 
the  dems 
sniff sniff
are stuck 
with 

the not 
or 
too position 

they can bill themselves 
as 
a second rate cola party
or  
the sanctimonious   
      un-cola party

trying to claim 
they're
 a cola lite 
is plan a 
"too only better "

at the ballot box
more folks voted 

"shit  cola  lite 
shit 
they're zero cola 
besides 
i crave  the full kicker "