It seems to me we should let the events taking place
in Syria, Iraq & elsewhere to serve as a warning
regarding a certain blind spot in the human psyche-
That across history individuals are willing
to abandon their personhood & subsume themselves
to the ideology of a larger group
(sometimes referred to as 'brainwashing')
A group often bent on Empire
with its own stripe of ideology
designed to give witness & promote
some transcendent Doctrine
Rendering non-believers, pagans,
infidels, heathens, lost souls, apostates,
those dwelling in darkness and must be converted,
reformed, instructed in the Shining Light
Or, failing that, dispatched
