Sometimes a poem can pack a punch. From Margaret Anna Alice at margaretannaalice.substack.com:
With calls for amnesty and literal claims that “mistakes were made” resurfacing, it seems an appropriate time to remind the Covidians and colluders of their behavior and pivotal role in enabling tyranny. This is not intended to rub their noses in their cowardice but rather to inform them that humbly taking responsibility for their words and actions is the only way to heal the relationships they so callously ruptured; restore the freedoms they lazily ceded to the tyrants, philanthropaths, and propagandists; and prevent future rinse-and-repeat atrocities.
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. Men must be bribed to build up and do good by the offer of an opportunity to hurt and pull down. To be able to destroy with a good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
―Aldous Huxley, Introduction (July 24, 1933) to Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, Easton Press (1934)Eulogy for the COVID Kapos
You mocked us.
You blocked us.
You wished for our deaths.
You shamed us.
You blamed us.
You called for our jailing.
You banned us.
You canned us.
You cut off our funds.
You believed.
You decreed.
You complied.
You denied.
You feared.
You sneered.
You cowered.
You lied.
