Complicity/Collusion

https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/complicity-collusion/

COMPLICITY / COLLUSION
Korvus Korax

TAKE 1
In the bread and circuses phase
                           of an empire’s waning days

skillfully framed  spin-riddled reports
devised and arranged to shape   not reflect
             reality     are fed to the orderly hordes
                    of hoped-for unquestioning simps

      by undercover PR
                    by soldiers  and officers in a corps
                                         which only sees action
      in the act of producing   stupefying weapons
             of mass deception and mass distraction
             that saturate the Orwellian menus
             of the mєdια cartel’s  ubiquitous outlets
                                         platforms and venues

where platoons of well-groomed perfectly-plastic
false-narrative parroting   broadcast mannequins
(the very cream of pushing talking heads)
along with their exhaustively-vetted pundit guests
      (all bona fide experts  in fact-free conjecture)
      do their professional censorial best
                    to ensure confuting truths
                                  are ruthlessly suppressed;
where   in the artful pitting  of all against all
with the intent of fragmenting potential dissent
      and for the time-tested purpose
      of rule   through the orchestrated discord
                    of methodically fostered division
the masterfully vacuous coverage of topics
       once done  with its perfunctory run
             through fatuous bits of trivia and gossip
invariably resorts  to the hot-button sports
      of flame-fanning  wedge-issue-hammering
             tribal-enmity-fomenting  identity politics

      along with regular
      sense-suspending reason-freezing segments
             of bogeyman-conjuring fearmongering
      and narcissism-reinforcing grievance porn
             in the form  of advanced victimology

and where   in league and lockstep
      with these  and other superb diversions
never is heard  a deeply contextualized fact
                           or insightful unfiltered opinion;
where   from the self-styled aristocracy’s
                                  obedient mєdια minions
             never is heard  an enlightening word
that might   however vaguely suggest
      the all-pervasive predication
             insatiable  unchecked theft
                    and normalized war criminality
      practiced   with presumptuous impunity
      by the parasite class who’s entitled clans
      of insider elites and their notable cronies
      take for granted their blanket immunity
             from both rebuke   and prosecution
             with its threat of unwelcome scrutiny.

And so it is that we
benumbed   dumbed-down citizens
are   in addition to the usual profusion
                           of customary inanities

offered a host of glittering
             obscenely obsequious displays
of glib-lipped line-toeing shows
      pre-screened Q’s & scripted A’s
             rigged inquiries and fake debates

featuring
a steady parade
of ready-made gushing and groveling
from a kowtowing cast
             of plutocracy-serving
                           spittle-slurping lackeys

      happily chirping
      insufferably subservient views
             on programs   that laughably
             masquerade as hard-hitting news

possibly fooling
      the bulk of the brainwashed masses
but coming across as all fluff and gloss
                           to the skeptical few
who refuse to stuff
      their unbowed heads up their asses.

TAKE 2
Mis  and dis informing
punctiliously distorting or ignoring
derisory-talking-points disgorging
                           diligently obfuscating;
spurious-claims disseminating
              press-release repeating
                           photo-op propagating;

      gov-prop peddling   celebrity smitten
      wealth-and-power-fawning-bug bitten
             orthodoxy defending
             groupthink / think tank echoing
                    establishment spokestoadies

de facto  stenographic agents
                    journalists in name alone
mere courtiers who take dictation
      from the ring of loyal barons
             surrounding the lawless throne;

leaders   in the field of misleading
      spinners   of institutional spin
             shills   for big-biz big-money sin
                    gods   of nonstop softball lobs
masters of projection   misdirection
      and the impossibly incurious question;

a pack  of assiduously cheerleading
with well-earned well-worn keys to the doors
      of covert-infomercial heaven
             and glowing   puff piece nirvana
disclosing insights  as incisive as the bites
                    of well-fed toothless piranhas.
Mindful   of never-written-
yet-spelled-out-by-its-system-of-rewards
             orders   to only cover symptoms
and never acknowledge
             much less discuss
                           any roots or root causes
      so as not to unravel
             the insubstantial fabric
                    of the falsehoods being spun;

content to consent
to pretend world events   happen
             in some sort of magical vacuum
when dealing with stories
      constrained and fashioned
      by the tacit command from on high
which makes it clear that asking why
                           is wholly verboten;

disposed to follow
      the unspoken  policy of opposing
      the exposing of anything outside
             the highly zoomed-in image
             the narrowly focused shot

ensuring  the editorial given
that honest context  is and will be cropped
and that unless pre-approved   any and all
allusions to history are implicitly forbidden;

unable to stray from the script
      or report  even the simplest
                    most basic of facts
that might in some way conflict
with the feeble threadbare fables
the reigning deep state has backed

      the status quo’s devoted mєdια
      unofficial   publicists for team amnesia
             proudly mouthing pre-packaged pap
      newscaster   presstitute types
      hand in hand  with both their outright
                           and shadow-banning bands
      of online-censoring   memory-holing
      big-tech-web-controlling   search-engine
                           -algorithm-rigging brethren;

             newscaster   presstitute types
             reduced  to prostituting their pipes
                           find themselves spewing
             malicious fabrications
                           and baseless accusations

effectively fueling
a conflagration of misinformation
             of adequate mass to create
and stoke the divisive fires
             of suspicion  distrust and hate

      all the while dispensing
      the poisonous pills of legalized libel
      slyly   insidiously smearing/defaming
                                  their designated prey
      by administering a prescriptive cocktail
             of persistent  concerted mislabeling

             accompanied   as often as not
             by venomous shots of denigration
                    and insinuated guilt
                    by however-tenuous association.

TAKE 3

Sworn  to take special care
to never air  anything beyond the bounds
                    of the slim preordained range
the hounds of allowable debate
             and permissible discourse
                    permit   without giving chase;

special care to never show
anything for which their owners and donors
and ad-rev heavies may possess a distaste

             all the while
             assailing their paymasters’ foes

the pol-fin syndicate’s mouthpiece-mєdια
feed the sheep a shiny diet
                    of purest  mind-moulding gold

to the point of avidly backing
and even inciting  whatever barbarities
their demonic sponsors have set as goals

      as they dutifully flog
      the psy-op tripe  it’s their job to hype
      to rally support from the unwary proles.


Reasoned  objective perspectives
and fair and forthright accounts
      being far too rare and precious
      to share with the plebs and peasants

the zealous suppression
of uncorralled narratives
      with their facts and provable truths
when they clash with the views
      and agenda-setting course
             the controlling oligarchs endorse

      is the obvious censored message
             in this age  of raging falsification

when brushing aside the packs of lies
                    and egregious omissions
that permeate the omnipresent
             money-power sanctioned fictions
is corporate mєdια  standard procedure

and presenting
even a semblance of evidence
                           to back up assertions
is considered both irrelevant
                           and entirely superfluous

      while accuracy in reporting
      is mistaken for the flashy scoring
             of bull’s-eyes in the game
             of sensationalism-driven ratings.


Unswerving
in its dereliction of journalistic duty
unwavering
      in its dedication to its hugely
                           lucrative abdication

      of all responsibility
      for exposing  both the odious acts
             and the merely shady trades
             that pervade the venal system;

with its proud  if mythical tradition
             of speaking truth to power
                           now a thing of the past;
with its last   shred of alleged integrity
      reduced  to a faded  fading memory

having   without reservation
turned  its once-presumed obligation
                    perversely upside-down
by now afflicting the afflicted
      and comforting the comfortable
             (as sickening as it may sound)

a formerly
purportedly moral fourth estate
      now perfectly happy
      to pocket a pretty packet
      to reliably  look the other way

having openly sold its soul
      for cozy access and easy pay;
having abandoned all pretense
                                  of impartiality
its transition
from all-weather watchdog
      nobly patrolling its thankless beat
to pampered lap-bound poodle
                           as good as complete

the PR arm   of a vast apparatus
whose role and goal is advancing
the sordid interests of the upper classes

now fully absorbed
      by the sponge of plush corruption
does whatever it takes
      to preserve the perks and comforts
             to which it’s grown accustomed

      by doing its misdirecting damnedest
      to keep the crude multitudes
             too confused and off balance
      to ever refine their rough suspicions;

      to ever home in on the cause
      of the rot at the heart of the system

in the bread and circuses phase
                    of a waning empire’s days.
From his lofty perch near the top of the earth, Korvus observes the whirling world of humans, with equal parts disgust and amusement. Korvus is the author of the unpublished book “RED PILL POEMS The Poetry of Empire, Politics and Power”.