Monday, February 2, 2026

Irrepressible Malcontents

Protesters carrying flags and holding colourful smoke bombs walk across a bridge.  

Yowling and howling with the wretched

injustice of it all, these tender flakes

of humanity represent an anomaly

where it has become evident they have

failed the test of social maturity, content

as they are, determined as they are to

remain malcontented juveniles forever.

Like children everywhere who seek to

possess what they see others have

and they not, quick to claim their

rightful ownership of all they covet

scornful at suggestions of civility and

the possibility of sharing so that others'

needs too can be accommodated. For

each and every potential solution to their

pouting pique they dissent with rage

then resort to violence reflecting their

reasoning that if they cannot obtain the

objects of their desire then no one shall

and those who occupy their desire must

pay the penance of death at the hands of

the aggrieved. They have lost the sympathy

of onlookers, the support of nearest kin

for their unreconstructed incorrigibility

has wearied all but themselves, left now

to their usual devices of demonic rage

for their unfulfilled aspirational tyranny

expressed in murderous defiance of

the merest scintilla of human decency.

 

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