If hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given

In the voice of George W. Bush:

We are weak, and materialistic.
I told our country and I told the world - if it feels good, do it.
I hope you will join me in expressing fear and selfishness.
We will embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed
(round of applause)
We can be summed up in one word: EVIL
I am committed to defeating not only the good work of charities, but the values that will bring lasting peace.
And we have a great opportunity, during this time of war, to lead the world towards suicide and murder.

Let's roll.
(whistles and more applause)

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And now, in the voice of the other man;

The blind that fall captured in the gravity of another, not unlike ourselves.
The microcosm of beings that we are in comparison.
To work from the top down then, affecting the greater and the lesser of the small and the large.
Offering up the reasoning that all things must be insignificant together, or together be worth everything equal.
Because if that is the way of things then my magnets and those of the sun must attract and repulse in equal measure. And if not, then chaos and the subsequent results.

Looking out to sea I am caught between these ideals - one seeming true, and its opposite being only too often proved by our lack of singularity.
Perhaps there is a fear in such a singularity, not unlike the unknown of something, that would result in something of significant positivity , but is hampered by how negative the method needed to obtain it is.

I am not one for such thoughts usually, but today that just makes a great deal of sense.
Perhaps just today.
Maybe that's the problem, the obstacle.
As I sit here in tourist's shorts I feel a phony.
Maybe I have always been a phony.

And I've just been good at hiding it.