Teaching School: A Wider Context

RonPrice · Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:37 am Post subject: Teaching School: A Wider Context

SETTLING IN TO THE DARK HEART OF GLOBAL CIVILIZATION

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. While these unchained appetites were being unleashed from the 1960s to the 1990s, over three hundred million people starved to death. -Ron Price with thanks to Edmund Burke and Paul Ehrlich.

The House and I had just settled in:1
they as trustees of a process
set in motion a hundred years before;
me as a foot soldier in a process
I barely understood
and the whole scene
began to get more and more violent,
aggressive, anti-social, Rolling Stones,
assassinations, TV war, Stanley Kubrick's
A Clockwork Orange. Then I started
teaching school and that world exploded
with disruptive behaviour
in bits-and-pieces, slowly, day-to-day,
seductively, then, like a landslide,
mind expanding drugs, extremist cultism:
they were the darkest hours before the dawn.

1 we had both 'settled in' by the mid-1960s.

Ron Price
29 October 1997