Politics


We don't want disagreement
to lapse into violence,
but where do you draw the line?
Advertising would like to convince you 
that your needs are unlimited.
(Only politics, virtue,
and the contemplative life
are unlimited.)
Aristotle said,
'Friendship beats justice.'
(You love your friend
more than your average fellow man.)
Get rid of the artificialness
that comes from a market society.
Money and exchange, distracts virtue.
(Not a means but an end to an end.)
Some people are slaves by nature.
Human essence, Aristotilian potential
developes the correct political wisdom.
Be a social hu-man,
not a slave.
Where you raised in a non-greek society?
(Then you've lived all wrong.)
Are you a woman?
Oh.
(Some people are slaves by nature.)