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Lesson 1: Utilitarianism for Dummies

Would you rather be a happy pig or a sad philosopher?

Do you think of blood and gore or flowers?
Angry cries or songs from the showers?
Confrontation or ignorant cuddles?
Truthfulness or gossiping huddles?

Search for meaning or rest in belief
Restlessness or calm relief?
Information, entertainment
Why not trust the infotainment?

What we know is what we know
Who would let the flowers go?
Sitting alongside the select and few
lonely, maybe, with a better view;

Would you rather rule a nation of happy pigs or sad philosophers?

Lesson 2: The Greater Good

The eighty-twenty rule states, quite clearly
that the twenty percent need, quite dearly
the soil and the souls of the eighty, who barely
need shelter and water, as really, quite fairly
if they aren’t informed of imperial history
how would they rebel against its misery?

Lesson 3: Zero-sum / the constraints of solidarity

You know that we feel guilty by the looks of their defeat
but we cannot get around the fact that fat cats need to eat
so appealing to morality with voices soft and sweet
we talk of solidarity and get up on our feet

though stern voices from the North rings home a well known truth
before you rally forth, like wild and untamed youth
before you start your marches to really make a fuss
you know that more for them means nothing left for us?

Lesson 4; the geographical limitations of fair representation

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe there is really such
a distance: from aborigine to zapatista, you can touch
and feel the difference.

But we are working on it, they’re invited round the table
it’s just not our fault, that really, they’re not able
after yet so many sequels to look at this like equals.

We all pay our way to know our voice
will find inclusion. To not chip in is all your choice
it’s not about exclusion.

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