There’s what we know and what we just assume.
The first of these brings little strife or care;
The second? It will melt down people’s brain cells
When we find out that others really dare

To assume things quite different from what we do.
This cannot be abided, at all cost:
We strive to validate what there’s no proving
As honor, wisdom, love
Are all just
Lost

(… prompted  …)

So, before you now you see
A strange part of history
That’s the era that we know
As the Age of Hubris

People fooled by politics
Vanity and parlor tricks
Turning on their neighbors while
Neighborhoods grow fruitless

Living thoughts of hate and blame
Charging others with the same
Idolizing people who
Flatter vanity

Science seen as deity
Thought homogeneity
Persons raised up to be gods
Pure
Insanity

(prompted)

Rarely have I had to sit
Through such shameless self-promotion
It was like a painful zit
Popped on screen, but in slow motion

Editing was flat forgotten
Plot was nowhere to be found;
It was somewhat less than rotten
In its imagery and sound

The protagonist I hated
Though the lead actress was fine;
But, alas then unabated
This rolled on sans heart or mind

So the best thing I can tell you
Is this warning to instruct:
Go nowhere near this crapola
I would say this story
Sucked

 
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Four Stars

The phrase
“Science has proven”
Indicates that the author of this prompt
Is hazy on both “science”
And “proof”

Nonetheless

I already believe that present actions
Presage future consequences
In more than just the sense
That this is true in physics
From a statistical viewpoint

But if I focus on the idea
I realize
That my tendency to selfishness
Is both great and unfortunate
And that the corresponding consequences
Are liable to be, as well

Therefore

I can today do maybe one more thing
For someone from whom I can gain nothing
Not to gain some karmic something later
But so as not to experience
The other type of karma

That I know

I actually deserve

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Karma Chameleon