In computer-science terms this might be called paring the search tree. Dash and Singal and other persons with relatively high social status feel that they have very busy lives and that their time is extremely valuable (after all, they're special and thus their time matters more, and they feel worse about "wasting" that time) and thus they wish to spend the absolute least amount of time possible on the worries of the people beneath them on the social ladder. In a hundred different ways they are inclined to think that such people have earned whatever problems they have, and thus that their lowly social status is effectively a judgment upon them, something deserved. The more conservative they are, the more likely it is they'll say it outright: people WANT to be poor and marginalized, or they're too lazy and demanding to achieve anything better for themselves. High social status is always thought to be earned and the result of hard work.

The exponential scale of privilege is especially admirable in simplifying the lives of the very rich. To be rich and powerful, to inhabit the upper strata of U.S. and "Western" society, is to have immense power over shaping one's personal environment and passage of time. Poor and lowly persons must run around according to the timetables of others; persons somewhat higher up can at least buy themselves occasional oases of leisure; but the true movers and shakers of the world can leave almost ALL their cares in the hands of someone else, and spend their entire lives as if taking one long languid vacation. Such persons travel wherever they like, whenever they like. They don't honor appointments; indeed it's considered a "power move" for a sufficiently rich person to blow off an appointment. They're not held to oaths or promises. To an astonishing degree they're permitted to do that which is regarded as the most disgusting and vile of crimes among the lower classes: rich people get to beg for money.

part of an immanent enormous #saga
#fisherwomen row on; launch the largest
fleet of thousands in barge or barcus
in tar skiffs reading #Darcus and #Marcus
a new #Dunkirk ; acts worthy of #Argus
filled to beyond the brim like my #Tardis
global #hawala – to dream is harmless
to lift the hearts cos we partly #stardust
not one weapon or piece of armour
above all, do zero harm: nada
hordes of #orcas escort and guard us
friends to port, fore, aft and starboard
from #Portugal , #Espagna , #Deutschland, the #Irish
if they won’t lease #flags then I guess we’re #pirates
#Lebanon, #Kosovo , #Tunisia , #Malta
#Turkiye , #Morocco , #Corsica, #Gibraltar
the #umma , #psalter and #altar on #prana
a #KumbhMela from #Kos and #Kerala
from #Cuba , #Bahamas , #Malaysia , #Ghana
#Somalia , #Suriname & #Botswana
#SriLanka , #Qatar, #Nepal & #Java
departing from each unbecalmed plaza
I won’t lie; they might turn some to carcass
I daresay some are hard to harm us
but if they bombard less than half of us
they marmalade toast and Gaza shan’t be #Tartarus
we can’t countenance being part of this artifice
our heart charges us with love in our arteries
so fear not the #armaments , the baying barbarous
the slyness of charlatans & the #SilenceOfParliaments
the spineless darlings that cover their arses up
forgotten yo #Socrates ? their very #PowerCorrupts
half are dumb, half are dicks, most are like “ah, fuck it”
#unserious #ParlourTricks from #colonising #arsonists
#Palestine is #OurVillage - can we show some cartilage?
all of this #pillage done in our name, #OurImage
calmly assemble; let’s meet at the #parsonage
those with #TooManyScars stay and try and #fubar #TheRich
#alone we’re just #particles with easy to break clavicles
snippy pithy #articles the best in our #arsenal
as a wave we a #radical #miracle that’s #unguardable ,
all as one like #Dumas’ ‘keteers, literal #decarceral
let’s be #deliverance and make it marvellous
we all still slaves if their chains on one arm of us
to the land of #FishersOfMen and #Carpenters
we’re all #Madleen like they say “I am #Spartacus ”
not move one half an inch before a full #armistice
before #religion , #god and #human : #GazaLives

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#FreedomFlotilla
#Sumud