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Oh, how we strut about the world We, the civilized population Unsatisfied until we've unfurled Blankets of our cultivation How proud we are of the machines That gauge and plunder the earths crust To farm by artificial means Deemed by the "uncivilized" as unjust The "uncivilized", those wayward tribes That naively worship this blue globe Need alcohol and such like prescribed To adjust malfunctioning temporal lobes Can they not observe our contentment And our superior living standard They squat and rant with some resentment We are progressive, they have meandered I wonder when those of tribal birth Will mature and see we've got it right And that their unkempt patch of earth Will make a fine farm or building site Or better still, once they're packing Up their dwellings and  possessions We can begin some civilised fracking With our governmental concessions That's what separates us from them I hope you have now realised It is a government controlled by business That makes us so very civilized
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Jun 8, 2014
Jun 8, 2014 at 4:53 PM UTC
How Civilized.
Oh, how we strut about the world We, the civilized population Unsatisfied until we've unfurled Blankets of our cultivation How proud we are of the machines That gauge and plunder the earths crust To farm by artificial means Deemed by the "uncivilized" as unjust The "uncivilized", those wayward tribes That naively worship this blue globe Need alcohol and such like prescribed To adjust malfunctioning temporal lobes Can they not observe our contentment And our superior living standard They squat and rant with some resentment We are progressive, they have meandered I wonder when those of tribal birth Will mature and see we've got it right And that their unkempt patch of earth Will make a fine farm or building site Or better still, once they're packing Up their dwellings and  possessions We can begin some civilised fracking With our governmental concessions That's what separates us from them I hope you have now realised It is a government controlled by business That makes us so very civilized
I just despair when observing our propensity to consume like kids locked in a sweet shop.
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Jun 8, 2014
Jun 8, 2014 at 4:53 PM UTC
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