• mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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    5 hours ago

    You might think history teaches; it repeats;

    page after page, a poem in perfect rhyme

    tolls echoing bells from both sides of the sheets

    for births and funerals, tells the time

    of ageless Alice, Hamlet’s fallacies—

    the latest light from vanished galaxies.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lolOP
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      4 hours ago

      As Antonio Gramsci would put from his prison cell while wondering why Italy became Fascist without people putting up a fight.

      History teaches, but it has no pupils

      We fell to the same thing, we let the wealthy define our culture. Our culture is now that of being cruel and taking. And people wish to be popular and wealthy more than moral or right. So we shift towards their world and act like them, till we have the cruelty in our own hearts.

    • Xaphanos@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Well alas we’ve seen it all before

      Knights in armor, days of yore

      The same old fears and the same old crimes

      We haven’t changed since ancient times