HISTORICISM

We have been dazzled too long by the might of inevitability
And certain that that which prevailed should therefore forever prevail;
That History exists as an engine, grinding visible futurity
And that History's justice comes sure as a stamped envelope in the mail.

Yet the world, good and bad, has existed, with truths towering big as the sky,
Without which, as without air and ocean, human history'd simply not be
And to all who pretend to rewrite them, all these truths give one simple reply:
It is certainly not your denial that can dent any of our eternity.

Walk down any main street and you'll be deafened by the clanking of their chains

Slavery never went away. It just crawled into people's souls and settled there. And of all the slave minds, the worst are those who shill for the rich and powerful - people who don't even need advocacy, they can supply their own so well - and praise their banditry. And there is a variety of such shills who is not only repulsive but also comical: those who loudly theorize about their own personal love of freedom, and who insist that nobody else but them really knows what freedom is about.