Promoting ploys with deployment, bombs with enjoyment, and boys with interment, war is a tormented, demented metaphor and euphemism for fraud, linking domestic debenture with foreign adventure. Unwanted and unwarranted, but wildly cheered by profiteers, war is a hyped-up, hopeless trope imperiled and bedeviled by deadly medleys of screams and tears with corpses and caskets.
WAR AS METAPHOR
War has become a popular, but unfortunate, metaphor and euphemism for society’s social failures. The “wars” on drugs, illiteracy, and poverty have all been lost, and the "war" on terrorism seems endless. Since war connotes conflict, violence, and death, we should dispense with this malevolent metaphor, and instead find beneficent metaphors that are more conducive to peace and health. Words have power and meaning, and they should be chosen carefully.
WAR ON DRUGS: FACT OR FICTION
WAR ON DRUGS: FACT OR FICTION
The War on Drugs is a misnomer. It’s not a war ON drugs, but a war FOR drugs via thugs, guns, gangs, and banksters. Also, it’s not a WAR, but a WEB of corruption, disruption, collusion, and intrusion. Like most wars, the "War on Drugs" is fake and on the take, with stashes of cash and caches of hash, and we need to be protected FROM it, not BY it. To quote the Roman satirist Juvenal, “Who will protect us from our protectors?”
PEACE & HEALTH
With myriad mysteries and mercies, the humane terrain of peace and health rings and reigns with sweet refrains, from the peak of the meek and the hill of the holy, down to the demonic domains and parallel hells of war and sickness in the valley of the bully and the gully of the guilty.
PEACE EQUALS HEALTH
Peace equals health, but health is the prequel, and peace is the sequel. Health is nutrition not addiction, and peace is contrition not conviction. So peace and health are unequaled.
WHAT IS PEACE?
Illusive and elusive, peace is a paradox. It’s sought and taught, but it can’t be bought, wrought, or fought, because we polarize, politicize, weaponize, and militarize, but we don’t realize that peace is an elite retreat from conceit and deceit, not an effete defeat.
PEACE & HEALTH
With myriad mysteries and mercies, the humane terrain of peace and health rings and reigns with sweet refrains, from the peak of the meek and the hill of the holy, down to the demonic domains and parallel hells of war and sickness in the valley of the bully and the gully of the guilty.
PEACE EQUALS HEALTH
Peace equals health, but health is the prequel, and peace is the sequel. Health is nutrition not addiction, and peace is contrition not conviction. So peace and health are unequaled.
Illusive and elusive, peace is a paradox. It’s sought and taught, but it can’t be bought, wrought, or fought, because we polarize, politicize, weaponize, and militarize, but we don’t realize that peace is an elite retreat from conceit and deceit, not an effete defeat.
