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Books
· A NEW RACE OF HuMANS

· Between the Cracks

· A Monumental Journey - first edition cover

· Beyond Understanding

· The Underground River

· In Search of the First Tribe

· A Monumental Journey - 3rd Edition


Short Stories
· Rejected (a curse or a blessing)

· The Visions of Saoirse Gilbride....

· An Irresistible Transformation...

· Surfing on Silent Skies...

· Doorway...

· The Strange Case of Kicky Cano...

· A Matter of Perspective 2...

· A Surprising Discovery....

· 10 North Waverly Place...

· Old Friendships (not forgotten)


Articles
· Thanks Giving...

· Kennedy and Lincoln...

· The Art of Poetic Prose...

· What Makes a Poet Authentic...

· Paul Harvey’s ‘If I Were The Devil’ transcript- 1965

· Direct Characterization

· Aphorisms (a collection)

· Hey Cortana...(2019)

· Origin, or Destiny?

· Stream of Consciousness


Poetry
· When the Heart is Flawed...

· Catching Happiness...

· The Fragments of Hatred...

· 'Malama Ka Aina'...

· On Open Wings...

· Generations....

· Dewdrops....

· A Gradual Decline…

· Like Wildflowers and Weeds…

· In Nature’s Design…

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Herd Mentality...

by Richard Lloyd Cederberg — Read all 280 poems by Richard Lloyd Cederberg

There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It encompasses the insidious dismissal of God, science, reading, writing, math, the arts and humanities, and their replacement by cheesy entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility. Great conflict is imminent.

Tuesday, August 3, 2021


Poem Artwork
Can we help
but lament tearfully
the deliberate dumbing
down of American children,
or the swelling numbers of readers
and writers befuddled with language?
The woke kaffeeklatsch striving
briefly,
in so many words,
to diminish the aesthetic
endeavor of others
with snobbery
and self-serving opinions
as creative sentience struggles
to shed truthful light on all things
capricious, plainly possible, vanishing,
living things................ slowly dying
.
In status:
self perceives self
dancing on sunbeams,
as intangible escorts seek to
excavate treasures - long hidden –
and reiterate them as curios on shelves
.
Pointing out
debilitating habits, and
easily finding discrepancies
[and anomalies] to further irradiate
the folly of adventuresome writers brooding
wordage in an era of ignorance, decaying substance,
self-righteousness, and heightened analphabetism…
.
With fellow feeling,
discretion
pooh-pooh’s
self’s somber song with a
brief lesson in onomatopoeia:
“The cow croons: moo-moo-moo,
the strident rooster: cock-a-doodle-doo, it’s
what the masses seek to consume now,” correctitude
points out, “jive and junk and biased views... NOT Truth...
.
Pray for the children…
.
© richard lloyd cederberg
8/2021
           Between the Cracks - A Monumental Journey Series



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Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on August 11, 2021
PHARASING; 'THE FOOL HAS SAID IN HIS HEART...THERE IS NO GOD' ALSO, 'THE FEAR OF GOD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM', AND, THERE'S ONLY TWO ROADS; THE WIDE, MANY TRAVEL THERE AND THE NARROW, VERY FEW TRAVEL THERE. I THINK YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING, RICHARD. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE WE MAKE WITH OUR CHILDREN IS THINKING 'EDUCATION/HIGHER ELITE LEARNING' IS WHAT IS GOING TO SAVE THEM. WHEN YOU AND I BOTH KNOW WHAT IS MISSING...GOD!!! THAT'S WHAT'S MISSING RICHARD. NOBODY WANTS TO FOLLOW GOD. EVERYBODY IS DOING WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING! EVERYONE IS 'FOLLOWING', YES... BUT THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE WRONG THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 'GOD CENTERED' HERD MENTALITY BECAUSE I DON'T THINK YOU CAN GET TOO MUCH OF GOD AND I WISH THIS WAS THE CASE, BUT IT'S NOT. NOW PLEASE, DON'T GET ME WRONG; A GOOD EDUCATION WITH EXPOSURE TO THE REWARDS OF SCHOLARLY KNOWLEDGE THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT IS A QUEST THAT NEEDS TO BE 'STIRRED UP' IN THIS WORLD BUT 'FIRST THINGS FIRST', RICHARD, WHAT ABOUT 'GOD GIVEN WISDOM' FROM ABOVE? THERE'S AN OLD CLICHE' THAT GOES LIKE THIS; WHEN A FOOL GETS AN EDUCATION, WHAT DO YOU HAVE? THE ANSWER IS...AN EDUCATED FOOL. NEW AGE DOES NOT MEAN TURNING AWAY FROM AN 'ANCIENT GOD AND HIS WAYS THAT 'DOES NOT CHANGE'. I DON'T CARE WHAT CENTURY IT IS...'SEEK YE FIRST...THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS...' AMEN! AND IT'S THE FAULT OF THE PARENTS. THEY DID IT AND WHAT'S EVEN SADDER IS MANY DON'T HAVE THE GUTS TO GO BACK TO THEIR CHILDREN AND SAY, '...I DID IT WRONG...!!!! FORGIVE ME, I'M SORRY!!! NOT THAT WAY, BUT THIS IS THE WAY YOU SHOULD GO...' AND IT BEGINS AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS! I KNOW! BECAUSE THAT'S WHY I HAD A TEENAGE SON RUNNING AROUND BELIEVING THAT THERE WAS NO GOD. HE COULDN'T SEE GOD IN ME...SO HE FOLLOWED 'THE HERD', WHICH UNFORTUNATELY, AT THE TIME INCLUDED ME. AND NOT ONLY HIM, BECAUSE I WAS BASICALLY A 'SINGLE MOTHER' WITH 4 KIDS AND THEY ALL SUFFERED, WITH THE LAST ONE GOING COMPLETELY THROUGH THE CRACKS. SO WHAT'S THE ANSWER NOW??? JESUS IS THE ANSWER! SOME GET UPSET WITH ME BECAUSE THEY FEEL JESUS IS NOT THE ANSWER FOR 'EVERYTHING'. BUT, OH YES...HE IS!!! IT ALL BEGINS WITH HIM!!! JUST THINK ABOUT IT; GOD TOUCHING AND INFLUENCING EVERY HEART, MIND AND SOUL OF ALL THE INFLUENTIAL LEADERS IN THIS WORLD. MY GOD...CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE 'THAT'...HERD MENTALITY...GOING FORTH!?!? I AM TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH YOUR LAST LINE...PRAY FOR THE CHILDREN!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING, MY FRIEND. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on August 7, 2021
Well, yes, pray for the children... for those of "children procreational obsession" mostly women, btw, for the best thing that could happen to this corruptibility that will take a hell of a long time to quell, is to NOT HAVE CHILDREN IN THIS ERA.

Reviewed by Sandie May Joyce
Reviewed on August 4, 2021
More astonishing, the fact that the government has stopped the press by his dictatorship. They have stopped all the publication of Trump's books, the publishing of books that may relate to or even have a mention of Trump's name. Why? - Because Trump speaks the truth and the communists will have none of the truth. They will hide the truth from the innocent children no matter what. THIS is dictatorship!!!... and this is ONLY THE BEGINNING... The burning of libraries will come at a time when communism swings in full force in America. You just wait and see!

Canada is already on its way, we have a dummy for PM, who is much like your dummy president.

And people are talking and protesting about "Slavery"? You want to ask them why some of the third world nations people want to rush into our country to work at minimum wage on the farms, while others are sitting at home collecting $2000.00 for doing nothing? Their jobs have been taken away by these "slaves" with the "Slave Mentality". Some people cry slavery and yet they can't wait to rush into other countries to slave themselves.

Yeah! What does it look like? This will be the way of life, you work for minimum wage on the farms and have roofs over your heads, get fed 3 meals daily, and these people won't mind to "slave" themselves. Good luck to them, but don't complain about this century or so from now how they had been mistreated! They asked for it and they've got it!

Sandie

Reviewed on August 4, 2021
They don't teach children anything in school now. Tearing down statues, forbidding them to learn history. Next thing you know the libraries are going to be burnt down. A new world will be born which is unlike the one we're now in.

Sandie

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on August 3, 2021
I'm not around where young children are learning, but I do recall back in our "wonderful" era all the patriotic junk history we were taught and the equal junk on the shelves of most bookstores, why we were reading classics.

Stephen King announced this morning that he has written 2016 books. I read that he has writers writing for him.

When I think of herd mentality, I'm thinking about how we get together as humans. We can all get together very peacefully like at Woodstock and the many concerts since, our we can get together with like minds and a herd mentality and attack the capital while Congress is in session.

We have to be careful what herds we join. Pessimistic ones or optimistic ones.

Ron

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on August 3, 2021
After reading your poem and its startling message, I feel glad to be old. I had a classical education in my time and it has served me well. I actually learned how to write in high school and developed the dire and love of writing and of words (and of reading of course) at that time.

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on August 3, 2021
I agree completely. Almost. Pardon me while I look up the word
"onomatopoeia."

Reviewed by Mystic Rose
Reviewed on August 3, 2021
Very strong words used and justifiably so Richard. We are structuring them so, one size fits all, it what America considers the perfect cookie cutter emblems, but its always the brilliant ones and the challenged ones that pay the price for their ignorance. When will we learn to teach our children the things that they will use the most and help them survive the most. I went to the school of hard cracks and they did nothing for my soft spot (*) I'm with out on this one, heart and soul :)
Thank you


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