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Giovanni Malito

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Universal Education

Unknown - Giovanni MalitoWhat you have here are all classes,
 from the idle rich to peasants, all
 of whom think they are educated
 because they have a college degree.
 You have children who pound down
 on keyboards punishing the innocent,
 who will never know how to count
 on their toes. And it is no revelation
 that the computer has added nothing
 to the overall wisdom of mankind.
 Still, you want it, even though geometry
 was born in the sand, and hydrostatics
 came to life in a bath full of water.
 You want it, thinking that knowledge
 is power although you will never know
 that bulls are colour blind, that ancient roads
 still itch under the layers of asphalt. And,
 the deeper you get into this new world,
 the smaller it, and you become. True
 curiosity is becoming a rare thing, because
 there are so many facts. And the more you
 swallow, the more your world opens, but
 even when you reach that time, when
 your penis is shrivelled, and your testicles
 pulverised, you will still be light years away
 from anything that could be called learning
 from experience, your own and others’,
 wisdom. But, really, what do you, or will you
 care, content and complacent, fed and watered
 for doing the job you were trained to do. 

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