EXPLOSIVE RECIPE: A Formula for Disaster

	Add dah voice of a singer
	to dah smile of a movie star
	Insert dah wisdom of a scholar
	in dah heart of a jaguar

	Mix sum rhetoric
	with a faint amount ah fact
	Make friends 'n remember enemies
	while observin each act

	Show inklings ah integrity
	butt kompromise when it helps yer fate

	Like the Mango Mussolini
	swiftly double-deal
	ta achieve yer aims

	Do this
	und wätch power
	cum ta yer plate.

	Move to the edge ah catastrophe:
	be a vehicle of fate!


Terri:  (shuddering) This is a formula for disaster! Can anything good come of this?

Sam:    Well, it's a formula for power. And power is essentially neutral – 
        it can be used in many ways.

Kris:   The geometry is wrong. There is no ethical symmetry to this. All 
        ethical relationships have a sort of symmetry that is sustainable. In 
        unethical relations such as this, 'self' and 'other' are out of balance.

Terri:  (raising her eyebrows) And what do you know about balance?


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from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  Some atrocious Machiavellian advice for gaining political power
KEYWORDS:  political power, Machiavellianism,  duplicit opportunism, Trumpian politics

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun:  1995 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished:  2018 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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