Values

The inculcation of prescribed, subjective "values" has become big business in today's society, compelling all to hearken even as vultures peck mercilessly in our desolete ephemeral landscapes within. Designed, packaged, mechanically conceptualized, have these desirable and irreducible moral processes ended up being codified, assigned to constricted compartments of meaning, referentially narrowed and slided along the conduits of our language? Must we now forcibly assign artificial boundaries in vain pursuit of that dubious horizon of definitional beauty? Has piety become a sub section in the conceptual overhead bridge, bearing the letters "LOVE" ridiculously spray painted over the cement by buffoons donning cloaks of authority? We have turned a deaf ear towards the pitiable cries of those who wallow in their tombs...the priests of yesterday, with their retrospectively magical ability to resonate their teachings and meanings over shared experiences, over the immense power of ritual. How I long for a return to the hearth, for the harpsichord of morality to strike a note in our collective consciousness again. That we may see and understand! Values overlap, extinguishing the pretentious borders of their neighbours, leaving a sweet aftertaste of internalization that we may all savour.