%) Ours is not to wonder why, but to shop until we die
April 20th, 2020
| Categories: consumer mind, cultural, empire, fitness, top ranked
Dragoons galloped in the Light Brigade
‘led’ by incompetence, stupidity
Now another mind-boggling ‘crusade’
this one in commercial avidity:
Likewise is ‘ours not to wonder why’
when charging in endless cupidity
Ours is just to swipe the card to buy
‘alive’ while wilting in flaccidity
When allowing inane marketing lead us astray
in cowardly expediency we hide away
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From poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred Tennyson about the 1853 Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. The British light cavalry charged, due to its leader’s stupidity & incompetence, on a frontal attack right into the lowered muzzles of Russian artillery. Hence for the dragoons: “Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die”
Edited 06/11/25 2020
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