Collective Perspective

The so-called
American experiment 
is failing.

Some hold that it has already failed. 

Others believe it has been 

a failure from the beginning.
Is failure not a matter of perspective?

Is it possible that 
it may be working perfectly?
Is it a well oiled machine

accomplishing a particular end? 

Is not all reality added to the truth, 
merely a matter 

of the perspective 
we each hold 

as to what we project,
as to what we adopt 
as truth?

Whose perspective is right? 

How can the question of who is right,
or what is wrong,

even be answered 

within the scope and purview of
our combined worlds,
The combined judgment of which is
merely a matter of 
the collective perspective?

Is the collective perspective
not public opinion?

The posterity of the people 

indigenous to American soil 

prior to the European invasion 

hold a particular perspective about their history.  

The posterity of the white European settlers 

hold another. 

The posterity of African slaves, 

still another. 

On and on it goes.

Getting control of these perspectives
is the means 
to getting control of the world.

Loosing these perspectives from control
is therefore the means of liberating
those held in bondage
by those who control
the perspectives 
which make up the world.