Half-awakened from sleep and dream
that told me: “Revisit and reconnect
with your original twin Euthyphro
and make an Anteros palinode
to fire and scent — a fresh new
libation in memory of Socrates,”
I then watched Miss Dugan
(TikTok: @miss.dugan1)
as she read replies
from her American high-school
senior students
to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby:
—“Tom’s tough, but Gatsby’s tougher.”
—Vague Chapter 8 Summary:
a “dude came over
and Gatsby got slimed out.”
—If Nick Carraway felt sweating
and discomforted
as his underwear was
“snaking [sneaking] up his leg,”
“that was a snake, right?”
—Daisy Buchanan,
what “a bop low key;
Like, am I wrong?
Exactly. No, I’m not!”
—“Like, bro, I thought
Daisy’ be like hot.”
—“Why did the dude write like this?
Bro is doing too much.
It’s like old English or something.
Did people even speak that way?”
—“So what? Did we all just get dumber
or something?” (when told
that The Great Gatsby
is not in Old English
but in Modern English).
—“There’s no way people used to talk like this.
The writing is performative AF [read: ‘as fuck’].”
Then I saw the reactions — coinciding
with all-out mainstream whitewashing
of the torture chambers and concentration camps
run by Ukraine’s Azov nazified core
of that country’s army, after being exposed
to the public in a horrific scene from the night before
(November 2, 2026) — and the students’ slang
and train of thought, matching exactly
how deep and far they’ve been assimilated
to the ghetto mind-frames
of the criminal underworld,
they all threw into stark relief
the current state
of yet another Heart of Darkness
or rather Darkness of the Heart
as, face to face with proofs
that, in the Land of the Brave and Free,
literacy and thought have become
antisocial behavior and a crime,
many rushed on cue and built-in prompt
to defend what they were told
and, to the students’ perplexing thought
“Did we all just get dumber
or something … and are we wrong?
Exactly. No, we are not!,”
they had it all explained and figured out:
“Depressing situation. Too many
educators have caved in.
And the majority are
in the business of dumbing down
students from kindergarten on.
It is the core strategy of the communist Left
to have stupid voters.
Otherwise, who would vote for them?”
“When communists lost the cold war,
they moved on with Gramsci’s plan:
capture the institutions.
They started by infiltrating
the institutions and trickled down
their poison all the way down
the education system.
It is not hidden.
All education is captured by leftists
and communist minded ideologues and unions.
Their only goal is make people stupid
and thus, easy to lie to and control!”
Indeed. One of the stupidest conspiracies,
haunting America and being planted
in the minds of the millions, is that the far Right
with its complete monopoly on and control
over everything claims and paints itself
as the persecuted and oppressed majority
by an evil minority of “the communists”
(on top of being defeated in the Cold War)
who are supposedly now running
and controlling nearly all
the American institutions.
How best to illustrate, confirm and extend
the overall cultural, political,
spiritual and even civilizational decline
into the new Darkness of the Heart?
