Gaslight
The online archives
will serve as lessons in logic
for our future Plato’s in training.
Fallacy
upon fallacy,
legitimizing evil,
demonizing the good,
the innocent.
Easier to do that
than change.
Human spirits trampled
by intentions always unkind.
Easier to torch the land
than it is to water new seeds.
The Greats plant seeds
of the trees they never see.
Where are the greats now?
Where is our vanguard?
Our democracy?
Can social models not thrive?
Is there dignity in the internet
industry of influencers?
Fallacy
upon fallacy,
and lies about the innocent
whose soul and innocence
burned to ashes
by the gaslight.
James J Jackson 
đź–¤