by Martin Anton Smith
There’s a moment when someone’s decides.
That they don’t like you.
It was the very moment that they realised,
That you were capable of independent thought.
They took it as an affront,
That you weren’t Brainwashed,
In exactly they same way as they were.
For they were carrying a brace of banalities,
And you made them all silently crash to the ground.
For that they instantly banished you from their lives.
And they complained that you were strange,
Firstly only five minutes later,
To their co-dependant “life-partners”,
And soon to their lifelong mates at the Brainwashed Club.
This is why they tell you to pretend your dumb.
But surely there’s a problem with this tactic.
For if you overdo it,
One day you will find yourself not needing to pretend anymore.
No one, mentions this risk.
Not even the supposedly great Philosophers.
Who came up with the idea in the first place,
Or at the least popularised it.
Is this an oversight?
Or was it a just a trick to beat their competition?
Moreover,
How trustworthy is a Philosopher?
That’s definitely worth thinking about.
But do you dare to do it out loud?
Anton Martin Smith Writer 