COVER UPS: Some apprehensions about Machiavellian subterfuge 

IMAGE: A pair of scissors and some smoke obscuring a classified document.
       Part of the text is redacted, but the visible parts read something
       like this - 

	Just as people use disinfectants 
	to mask unpleasant smells 
	so do politicians employ rhetoric 
	to mask their many ills 

	Yet despite repeated cover ups 
	truth ekes out over time - 
	lies are short-term expedients;
	it's hard to whitewash all grime. 

	In our age of global cover ups 
	and publicly financed lies 
	foul deeds are given fair names 
	but fragments of truth surface from time to time


Terri: (looking at the picture) Aren't cover ups inevitable?

Ted:   Perhaps. Few humans are willing to show their weakesses. Are cover ups any surprise?

Terri: Hmm. Without transparency how can there be democracy?

Ted:   Don't be naive – democracy only works if participants have approximately equal 
       power and also adequately informed. Those conditions rarely, if ever, exist.
       Most people prefer to be entertained, not educated.


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from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  Some redacted comments about censorship, whitewashing, and democracy.
KEYWORDS: subterfuge, political poetry, pseudo-democracy, social camouflage

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1993 in Shizuoka / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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