Yes, there is a vast difference between "our daily habits" and the beatitude you refer to in the poem. Your final line says it all: "We derive them all at the first light of dawn." John
A detailed study of the origins of the New Alienation. The author labels it normative or postmodern ennui and traces its rise to cultural power over the last two centuries.
For the reasons I describe in this book, the world-wide suffering, death and extinction of humanity is very likely to occur, unless nonviolent and democratically determined radical and revolutionary personal and societal actions and changes are taken
Black white (well sort of pinkish) etcetera, Christian Muslim etcetera, Hetero-Homo-Metro Sexual, Physical, Mental, Ow! Includes all human rights violations I could think of.
I find the lack of daily communion with others and communion with nature greatly enhances my ability to write.
Ron