[Newspoetry] Most Absolute, Social Facts Are

[Donald L Emerick]

Most Absolute, Social Facts Are

Many social facts are undeniable
because they can not be denied
by anyone who's in their society,
whose bounds are set by beliefs
held commonly with those others.

If you deny a critical social fact,
you have just moved from inside
an impermeable social barrier
to an infinite and foreign outside,
marked by diverse alien exotica,
where, from inside points of view,
which are generally all one view,
outside is best modeled chaos,
because outside has no center,
unifying it to matching bi-polarity.

It thus shows latent anarchism
lies in talking of outsider views,
as if any outsiders had society.

Can you deny one social fact
and remain sanely in society?
Can you deny one and only one
or do you become inconsistent,
incoherent, twistedly perverse,
to deny one is also to deny all,
when a social fact to be denied
is central to the belief system.

In logic, a premise could stand
some crucial membership test:
such as that of truth-or-falsity.
Even there, not every premise
could be absolutely contested;
some premises lie undecidable
beyond this criterion boundary
of what lies within and without.

However, premises lie without
when they stand inconsistent
with those that stand within
a boundary of logic's system.
Where do undecidables go?
Do they fall under this order
or do they stay out in chaos?

Some systems of logic nest:
all hierarchy is an inner series
that sorts out what is within
according to its placing roles
in a logical social structure.

What shapes social pyramids
is a belief in power at the top.
The more who believe one way,
the higher its pyramid rises up;
losing faith collapses a society,
causes all pyramids to shrink.

Power at a top must inhere
if only man must be servile,
if man must be a socialist,
subordinate to his society,
or else stand as its enemy,
outside a state's civic gates.

Loyalty is a state's power test
like logic's false-true criterion,
applied to decide who to trust,
by finding who is trustworthy,
punishing treasoning breaches
most severely as a risky flaw
in a security of a state's order.

But, some will be undecidable:
and when some power at a top
becomes highly apprehensive
loyalty tests become stringent,
exceptions to rules are threats
today, but otherwise yesterday:
undecidables become outsiders.

One creates new undecidables
by moving the social fences in.
This happens in threat-scenes,
It also unsettles border-landers
who now must move to remain
within the keep of some castle,
or else try to be some barbarian;
to such alien ways few ever move.

Secure lies power at a loyal top:
you can see this in psychofants,
how they must cluster and thrive,
be a species in such divine order,
appearing angelic to the top-god,
devilishly uncaring to bottom-sod.

Death is a supreme test of loyalty:
would you die for this cause of me?
That is what makes leader anxiety,
an uncertainty of subordinate death,
that the leader would be last to die,
not betrayed to a premature death.

Leaders who look to loyalty tests
find that they also must make war,
testing soldiers as social structures,
testing social structures as soldiers.

Bush is America's psycho-pathos,
the wrong leader at the wrong time,
a catastrophe of overlaid disasters.
But for 9-11, his fecklessness fails,
he fades from history uncelebrated.

A man most alienated from a father
who was too busy to show a care
is latently a most insecure person:
he demands greater loyalty as love
but it never recompensates him,
in a cheerfulness of free exchange.

All psychopaths are brute bullies,
because they do not learn to wait
for love to appear slowly as it will,
to stay as long as it wills to stay,
to leave when it yearns for outside.

Impossible to understand icons
is what leaders symbolically are,
for none quite understand power
who have not breathed its poison,
a sickly-sweet fog swirling about,
in hazes of which do hazards lie:
it is easiest for leaders to believe
the lies that are told about them,
deep inside the inner-most circles.

The higher some leader rises on top,
the more he believes he is god-king.
It can not be helped, nor countered:
there is no cure for psycho-pathos,
social-power-loyal-to-top forbids its.
One is left outside, barbaric, hoping
that fits of madness will not appear,
not today, please dear lord, not today,
let them go crazy elsewhere elsewhen.

Thanks for listening,
Donald L Emerick
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