“The Afternoon Meal”…by Evert Pieters.
Annunciation.
’Twas once a given, that righteous annunciation from time immemorial be,
Women, if they wish, child bearers would be , men provide for their security,
Such is the scheme of the natural world, that no man nor woman ought despoil,
But there comes this middle-class of opportunists that demand change,
Calling for women to abandon their right of prioritise children born,
Instead embrace that class’s command, place career first – childbirth forlorn.
Who gave permission to that class to dictate their personal opinion,
As if it was from some “divine” diction ordained via middle-class instruction,
Just to enable profiteers to capitalise on a cheap labour option,
Speculators to swindle the working families with promise of “riches”,
From such employment to guarantee wages equal to Croesus’ treasures,
Earned by doing overtime as shelf-stackers or domestic cleaners.
This is the only promise those liars and opportunists can deliver,
Using cunning language instilled from their private school mentors,
That the “consciousness of kind” can afford from similar past accrued riches,
Following a long, long line of upper-middle class crooks and swindlers,
Claiming to be the best of friends and working people assisters,
Proclaiming that personal denial of children is a promised career enhancer.
“Career, career!” the mantra chant from lips of barren, middle class slavers,
With figures ‘at hand’ from a statisticians’ survey, calculated from “average wages”,
Of the highest paid slaves serving their bourgeois masters,
While those same opportunist owners raise the cost of living faster,
Than can be afforded from such “fantastic” wages,
Forcing workers to take more jobs, work harder, longer, for pay-master.
Such is the profanity given as promise in a blasphemy against humanity,
The core and foundation of blind, egregious, bourgeois philosophy,
Delivered from pulpit, from senate lectern with a tone of gratuitous flattery,
Of course there IS a condition assigned by force and circumstance,
That demands disgraceful compliance of workers servility,
Of endless obeyance to their creed of cursed materiality.
Making mockery of the once honest work of crofters and crafters,
Scorning the raising and feeding of the child as like cow milking,
Persuading young couples to delay any offspring,
To an older age when money and career is more entreating,
Till the mistake is learned that nature favours not older childbearing,
And couples are left barren or reduced to surrogate pleading.
No..No..heed not those double-speak speculators with their “Gordian Knot”,
Of un-natural adherence to a philosophy of grab what can be got!
Cursing others who want family instead, as not being equal, deserving their lot,
Women perchance, could child-bearers be, with men to supply for their security,
Such is the scheme of the natural world, that NO class of society may claim contrary,
’Twas always a given, this righteous annunciation from time immemorial be carried.
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And still we continue to buy into the lie, perceiving the truth only at the point where we are old and no longer of any value in the labour market-place, and our Cassandra-like cries disregarded. My daughter and her middle daughter have both had the good fortune to be stay-at-home moms, and both excellent at this task, continuing to self-educate on the way, But I can’t count the number of times I have been asked “doesn’t she work?” “hasn’t she got a job?” or “what a waste of a good brain!” They have both had the courage to follow their convictions, and have husbands who support their choice. My eldest granddaughter (like me!) would go stir-crazy if she were “just” a wife and mother, so she also has a job and, being naturally, efficient and creative, has advanced in her career. My youngest granddaughter works to eat and isn’t interested in promotion, as she prefers not to be stressed about her work. I am thankful that they have been able to avoid the ratrace so far.
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Hello, catt….As an amateur student of history, I have read so much of past, “managed” societies..and of those well archived ones that have collapsed, I read a pattern in their demise..and almost without exception, it starts with the destruction of the cultural foundation of its rise…Gibbon wrote of it, Mommsen wrote of it, Machiavelli wrote of it, Veblen wrote of it…and of them all, none of their cautions were taken seriously….and this last lot of middle-class vandals that have been corrupting our culture since the great sellout of the enclosure laws have succeeded in turning gender against gender till there is little left but suspicion and hatred…I am of an extended family of seven adults ( the other recently passed away) with four healthy, adult children who have grown through their reproductive years..our children ; two male / two female…yet only two children between them all…the women have graced us with grand-children…the males have retreated out of suspicion and fear of loss of assets from even marrying…they will grow old alone, but are yet too young to be aware of the void of loneliness in old age….it is a crying shame…I cannot begin to describe the anger I feel toward these modern-day manipulators of social management…I despise them, I despise them, I despise them…
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Maybe we are lucky in Switzerland, where the rural lifestyle and its values are still respected valid currency. I have chafed at the bit on many occasions, but on the whole I prefer thge quality of life I have here to what I see of my frriends’ and relatives’ lives in the UK, USA, Germany and France.
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I thank you, Catt’ for your thoughtful and well-considered comments..they are most appreciated when one seems to post on certain subjects that are almost treated as taboo subjects….I have for a long time railed against the twisted propaganda put out by “official channels” of both mainstream and social media that paints the middle class as a benign “we’re here to help you” parental overseer with nothing but good on their minds.
I can trace the beginnings of the interference of this malicious breed of bacteria back to the deal that was struck between the declining aristocracy and their mortgagor; the rising industrialist upper middle classes, ie; the passing of the enclosure acts that forfeited the use of common land to the common peoples of the villages in England and elsewhere in Europe, which drove millions of peasants into the big cities seeking work..any work to survive, to be scooped up by the rapacious industrialists to be put to work to construct the industrial revolution.
These days we have the so-called age of technology and the rise of that almost gormless blowhard propaganda of the “miracle” of Ai that is going to revolutionise every bodies lives…what buffoonery, what utter bullshit! There was some wanker on the radio yesterday blowharding about using Ai to give warning about future bushfire danger locations and where to direct units to control existing outbursts…I mean..; tell us the bleeding obvious! I thought that is why we have those spotting towers located in all of the alpine regions…and then, ironically, a couple of years ago we have a disastrous grass-fire from some idiot throwing their cigarette out the window of their car…who’d a thought…
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