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Reason’s Hocus Pocus
I.B. Rad
How impossibly irrational we are,
disregarding, even violently suppressing
anyone disputing our convictions
yet so easily cowed
by what’s “politically correct,”
swallowing “hook, line, and sinker”
shiny new issues
pitched by partisan pundits,
particularly if they affirm our beliefs,
dogmatically adhering to religion
and other isms
such as liberalism, conservatism,
populism, libertarianism,
inflating the hazard
of infrequent disasters
like plane crashes and terrorist attacks,
imputing meaning or order
to objects or events
where none exists,
such as discerning the face of Christ
in the blemishes of a potato;
in the end, exemplifying,
as a friend once put it,
“In the land of the blind
even the one eyed man
is simply confused.”
