Enabling the Big Lies and Myths

Like a blight on burgeoning brains
the unmentioned pervasive suppression
              of unbridled inquiry  honest reflection
              uncensored discourse and healthy dissent

thrives  beneath the shielding artifice of scholastic virtue
that cloaks  the unspoken program that seeks to prevent
                                          genuine erudition and wisdom;
thrives  behind the brilliant  sacrosanct front
              of an ostensibly enlightened curricular system;

       behind that peerless indoctrination agent
                                   masquerading as education
              with its dedication to teaching
                                          what to think instead of how;

       behind that go-to tool for inculcating rules
                            and instilling conditioned submission
       as young minds are drilled in gov-approved schools

       where the ingestion of unquestioned information
                            and conformity-fostering social control
              are the primary goals of so much robotic
                                   orthodoxy-propping  regurgitation

in schools   where lip-service praise
is paid to the laudably liberal  if in-theory-only principles
              of uncorralled curiosity and free-ranging thought
while in practice these are seen  as signs of vile defiance

as the penned-in sheep are routinely taught
                     the enormous rewards of blind compliance
alongside its bitter inverse   the hefty price of deviance
from belief in the big lies and myths
                                   that serve  to legitimize state crime

— the lesson of lessons being the blessings of obedience
       and the curse that awaits  those who think out of line.