Cult of Academia Poem

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The Academic Cult
by mfarnold

Manipulation of marks
Authoritarian trademarks
Mind-control into deliberate darks,
Destroying young beautiful larks,
Through trapped, peer-group, graded demarks.

Systematic programs for indoctrination
through standardised curricula and examinations
that marginalise large populations,
deprived of housing by politicians,
in elitists designed diction questions,
that perpetuate manipulations
of Cultish philosophies, that attack religions
to break family unions.

Fear is the main agenda
to accept its propaganda
through pass and fail referenda,
that break the self-worth from preprimary
to university
to provide mindless workers for the industry,
at the expense of dignity.

To join this Cult, wrapped in debt
Is to enter a place of soul bereft,
from teachers to ministers
blinded by evil sinister,
that destroy learning to sinders,

To the middle class, whose ego is stroked
Through degrees clocked
That damage and choke
the creative life out of every youth
Creating rebellious uncouth
desperately trying to uproot
a subtle colonial Slavery suit,

We call you out
To stop creating doubt
causing a creativity drought

Give a deep thought
To what academics brought.
And support those besought.