Exquisite wisdom manifest. Thanx Galleh for sharing. A sobering poem. Haruna. In a message dated 6/23/2010 1:45:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: The Captive Mind By Baba Galleh Jallow Nailed to a plank Of concrete steel The captive mind Sees change But cannot change Sees good But cannot say it's good Prefers to bear the pain Of eternal impalement To a red hot plank Of concrete steel. Cuffed to a bleeding knot The captive mind Feels light But insists it’s only the dark It sees the heights But insists all is down below That liberty lies And freedom resides Deep down the blind airless dungeons Of spiritual and mental slavery. Glued to hero worship The captive mind Gloats over the deadly blows It deals the truth It brags over The slain corpse of decency Decomposing at the public forum It loudly trumpets its right to love It’s eternal right to worship That vicious little hero of its jaundiced fancy! Groaning under the weight Of a burdened conscience The captive mind Cracks out In thunderous laughter At the glory of its own slavery It rattles out Eulogies to the brute Dark Beelzebub And dares feeble reason to show its ugly face! Baking over the blazing furnace Of willful lies And unjust hailing of the unjust The captive mind shouts Loudly shouts out Its freedom to lie the master lie It trumpets to the world It’s freedom to slowly die the master die Locked up in the raging inferno Of self-deceit! ____________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. _Sign up now._ (https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969) ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: _http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html_ (http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html) To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: _http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l_ (http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l) To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask]) ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤