No Object #4

For Kipling

If
the assumption is that the world is badly screwed up,
If
we realize that both social relations and personal relations are screwed up by the social system of capital investment and growth,
If
we get it that this is what makes even the environment steadily deteriorate,
If
the sense of relations sweeping thru the social, personal, and environmental also extends to the inner (intra-) personal,
If
language can be seen to be a focus at the core of all this,
If
consciousness shows thru as the very core,
If
consciousness can be changed by experience of awarenesses playing across language and other perceptual relations,

then

poetry matters, especially where it can stop objectifications from reifying "the world."