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Writer's pictureShandar Oman

Covid19 Cards in the Air

Updated: Aug 9, 2021


Fever dreams swirl amidst clouds of these times

the cards up in the air

their dancing vortex twisting though ecology and history

the joker’s face flashes past laughing

kings and queens try to position themselves to again land on their feet

low ranked cards posture for the high moral ground

shoehorning the virus into their pet issue

delight in other’s fearful folly

Russia and Saudis declare an oil war derailing USA shale oil boom

Conspiracy theorists are in a feeding frenzy

others remain calm and do their best to prepare

Not just the competent public service health workers

Also the malignant self-serving powers remain calm

This is not a sprint but a marathon

Victoria opens the door to fracking

I drift in a dream from the current time to long arcs of history

I read the history of the East India Company

The Anarchy

A corporation that wielded the largest military of its time

A stateless empire serving profit

Protestation in parliament hundreds of years ago that could have been today

Corporate capture of the state

Eisenhower calls it out

Military industrial complex

Linguistic capture of a concept

Deep State

I listen to a CBC podcast tracing the term through Turkey and Egypt

Into left vernacular and then repurposed by the Alt Right

A bit like the word ‘god’ it means so many different things to different people

the phrase ‘deep state’ is more likely a source of confusion than understanding

critical energy is poured into decoys

an ecology of government staffers and corporate lobbyists feeds on us all

Dick Chaney USA govt and Halliburton

Sean Drabsch NT Gov Santos and Adani

But there has been a wobble in the matrix

Where will the cards land?

New Green Deal or Govt subsidised coal mines?

Corporate handouts or Govt purchase of company shares

What will people life habits be in 12 months time?

It is not determined

The butterflies are flapping their wings

It is time to be Zen

Watch the cards

Influence where they land

Don’t complain

Act

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