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The problem of leadership
Is inevitably
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Power bases are very dangerous
Because they attract people
Who are truly insane
People who seek power
Only for the sake of power
Absolute power
Does not corrupt absolutely
Absolute power
Attracts the corruptible
Is inevitably
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Power bases are very dangerous
Because they attract people
Who are truly insane
People who seek power
Only for the sake of power
Absolute power
Does not corrupt absolutely
Absolute power
Attracts the corruptible
Atrocity is recognized as such
By victim
And perpetrator alike
By all who learn about it
At whatever remove
Atrocity has no excuses
No mitigating argument
Atrocity never balances
Or rectifies the past
Atrocity merely arms the future
For more atrocity
It is self-perpetuating upon itself
A barbarous form of incest
Whoever commits atrocity
Also commits
Those future atrocities
Thus bred
By victim
And perpetrator alike
By all who learn about it
At whatever remove
Atrocity has no excuses
No mitigating argument
Atrocity never balances
Or rectifies the past
Atrocity merely arms the future
For more atrocity
It is self-perpetuating upon itself
A barbarous form of incest
Whoever commits atrocity
Also commits
Those future atrocities
Thus bred
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It was a pattern the sisterhood
Had long recognized
The inevitable failure of slavery
And peonage
You created a reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created a reservoir of hate
Implacable enemies
If you had no hope
Of exterminating all of these enemies
You dared not try
Temper your efforts
By the sure awareness
It was a pattern the sisterhood
Had long recognized
The inevitable failure of slavery
And peonage
You created a reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created a reservoir of hate
Implacable enemies
If you had no hope
Of exterminating all of these enemies
You dared not try
Temper your efforts
By the sure awareness
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
It was not growing up
That slowly applied
The brakes to learning
But an accumulation
Of things I know
Things I know
It was not growing up
That slowly applied
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
It was not growing up
That slowly applied
The brakes to learning
But an accumulation
Of things I know
Things I know
It was not growing up
That slowly applied
The mind can go
Either direction under stress
Toward positive
Or toward negative
On or off
On or off
Think of it as a spectrum
Whose extremes
Are unconsciousness
At the negative end
And hyper consciousness
At the positive end
The way the mind will lean
Under stress
Is strongly influenced by training
Either direction under stress
Toward positive
Or toward negative
On or off
On or off
Think of it as a spectrum
Whose extremes
Are unconsciousness
At the negative end
And hyper consciousness
At the positive end
The way the mind will lean
Under stress
Is strongly influenced by training