On The New York Times Apology For Apathy Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

For the Exhausted Majority


I am sad that you feel so exhausted
About the political spats between
Those who think the others stupid
And those who think the others evil.

That it is not really about policy
Or decency or doing the right thing
But more about psychology-based
Tribalism and the dynamics of resentment.

That it only concerns the fruits of privilege:
Being a matter of competing narratives
Between nasty brutish and short Hobbes
And jaded noble savages de Rousseau.

Don't let the lies get you down
It's only a drama orchestrated by power
Go and have a good lie down -
The Evil will wake you when it's over.