Dozing off to the sound of overproduced feel-good songs beside your little backyard pond.
Constantly distracted because you couldn’t be bothered.
Disrupting your state of ignorance would not do much in the end.
At least you are not hurting (anyone) so why doubting yourself.
“You are one of the good ones.”
In need of harmony, you swallow every drop of scum without retaliation,
condoning and becoming complicit in violence.
Every so often you start to wonder…
But still, your submissive compliance is not compensated by backhanded wit and feelings of superiority.
You have chosen your side.
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