Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’
Into the future
Lyrics by Steven Haworth Miller
(Fire in Rome by Hubert Robert, 1778 / MuMa – Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France)
In 64 AD, Rome burned.
And supposedly the Emporer Nero fiddled with abandoned glee.
Now whether or not there was any fiddling on a fiddle taking place, there was no doubt
some fiddling of the facts taking place.
Once the fire had been contained and finally extinguished,
over two-thirds of the city lay in ruins.
The Emperor blamed the Christians.
That subversive religious “cult.”
However, historians actually believe that Nero himself had the fires set because he wanted
to create a grandiose “golden house” that would be a massive endeavor, a tribute
to his reign, and cover an expansive portion of Rome…
so long story short, Nero needed the space.
As the ever gracious Emperor, he immediately began offering food and aid to the
masses of his people whose lives were now decimated.
How kind.
Fast forward to Berlin, 1933.
The German Chancellory, The Reichstag…the home to the German Parliament, burns.
Hitler blames a known Communist sympathizer, however historians are in agreement,
Hitler had the Reichstag burned.
(Burning of the Reichstag 1933, Berlin, Germany)
The burning was the excuse Hitler needed in order to round up all the Communists,
allowing his Nazi party to finally fill in the gap;
the party could take the majority of seats in parliament, and in turn,
take control of the Nation.
How convenient.
Fast forward to 2020.
There is a pandemic along with a quarentine lockdown.
The Speaker of the House brags, while standing in front of her expensive subzero
refidgerators / freezers, that she is ‘enduring’ the lockdown with top shelf ice cream…
all the while small businesses are told they must shutter their livlihood or else.
Houses of worship are closed.
Civil unrest breaks out.
Cities are burned.
Businesses are destroyed.
Lives and livihoods are left in shambles.
Throw in a contentious election with a deeply divided Nation.
The conservative republicans, in particular those “MAGA” supporters,
those who support the President, are the ones who the progressive left
blame for all the woe…
Is there some sort of pattern here, or am I just imagining things…
Ode to the power of the power hungry…
“Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them,
They will be driven away into the gloom and fall down in it;
For I will bring calamity upon them,
The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:12
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