Dark idealism
Can idealism be dark?
It depends. Idealism is never dark
in itself as an idea,
but if you, like so many do,
confuse reality with your ideas,
idealizing fakes and lies and deceptions
by mistake, as so many do,
then your idealism becomes an instrument of darkness
and backfires on itself, causing harm and grave delusion,
while on the other hand, reality can never be ideal,
and you can not do without ideals.
The art is to somehow project your ideals
into reality, and thus improve and change reality,
not manipulating it, but encouraging its better possibilities,
thus helping it along to some improvement.
That idealism can never turn to blackness,
constructiveness can never be an instrument of darkness,
while lies, deceptions and dishonesty
can never last, especially not as ideals.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2010-10-31 at 00:38
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