Thursday, April 12, 2018

History of the Victors, No More – v3


It has been said that history isn’t written
by those who were in the right;
but by those who are left, after the battles;
Filtered by scribes of the conquerors
or so it has been in the world
before the current frenetic age
when everyone has a microphone, a stage,
a platform, a forum for spreading
opinions as facts, alternate views be damned.

Today, a greater variety of voices
contradictory, contrary speakers yelling
each telling a different, a competing truth
spread equally around the world
in mere milliseconds, an instant,
about war, about struggle, about the acts,
the commissions, the omissions,
of nation states, of rogue groups,
wherever they may be resident.

Each one being catalogued,
accumulated for the telling
far more democratic, nuanced,
a Rorschach test splattered
thrown on the screens, the page,
the news cycle, 24X7, not sleeping,
a relentless cacophony, chaos,
the history of this age, unscripted
uncontrolled by the victors anymore.

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edited April 12, 2018
History of the Victors, No More – v3

edited April 11, 2018
History of the Victors, No More – v2
edited June 17, 2007 18:25
June 16, 2007 16:24
History of the Victors, No More
1 Peter 1

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