Cause and Effect

I am the foil ignored by you and your society, an extension of your regard for your beloved new order. An order based on the same disciplines and doctrines conceived thousands of years ago.

I am the immortal who is always present to seek and divert all of your beloved prodigy whom you incessantly train with knowledge from the ages now gone by. You, who we have enlightened, now disregard all that you know is true, falling back upon the inevitable excuse "that's not right". A phrase espoused by those who have been selected by others, simply based on the continuity of their belief systems. A conditioned set of standards by which you seek to pigeon hole all those whom you admire and follow, and those others that you disdain and admonish.

It is not greatness and wealth that you seek. It is not truth or falsehood that you decide. It is not order or chaos you seek or avoid. Power is the basis for your new order. Yet, your avoidance of the truth is an idolatrous and screaming proclamation to the fundamentals by which you live. You, who seek in one manner or another an equality, you believe is inherent with all life. The ultimate scale of existence so cherished by all those who seek to incorporate another's perceived advantage into their own version of reality.

We showed you how to build magnificent clocks, towers and bridges from stones then chose instead to care for a rock as you did for small furry animals. We taught you how animals could exist with you in symbiotic relationships only to raise their status and consciousness to a level not un-equaled to your own. We left you manuscripts of history, law, philosophy and prophecy only to watch you spend all eternity living by and for their dictates rather than tearing them apart and resolving the contradictions to nature and reason within them, and, as a further testament to your "contribution" you have killed, maimed, brutalized or ostracised those who questioned those first dictates emanating form the genesis of your 'grand' new order.

Your new order is not the first of it's kind. There have been thousands before you who have seemingly pulled the sword from the stone. Those who wield the power of this age's version of the sword, are the one's you have romanticised as your leaders. Gone are the men of the shires, counties and provinces, those nobles, dukes and earls of the dark ages. They have been replaced by the individuals who have mastered the belief systems of the people, be they a charlatan, soothsayer or the community organizer waiting for the latest polls to see what the majority of the 'people' think... or will believe! (dare I say minister, preacher or.....CZAR)?

The age of tyrants, kings and nobility is dying but not gone. Your new order is of the same make-up as before, only those who wield the swords now, are the ones who have mastered the power based on conditioning (what the social engineers of the ages called education). Not the conditioning usually attributed to the process of healing a physical injury, but the program that governs your response to the perceived affects of reality, ignoring the actual effects that are sure to follow. I am sure the publicly educated among us are well versed on the difference between the two, none the less their importance!