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Under Shadow of Empire (poem)
(lemmygrad.ml)
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Wrote this while thinking about living in the imperial core, the way they try to shape people's thinking to not care, unless it is a jingoistic support for empire; to view life in an individualistic, hedonistic way, devoid of any deeper meaning to it. The way patriarchy and other such systems try to shape people to bury empathy and normal emotion, and replace it with anger and aggression. And the desire to be free of that shadow cast over humanity.