This message (a particularly catchy these days framed as is) has been with humanity since the dawn of civilization (perhaps). How cliché ..., questionable in its motivation, and disgusting in its implications. For any student of history and thinker of the future ... this intellectual bottom of cesspit for an article.<p>O. Buttler's poem is abstract anti-dote to this nonsense.
When vision fails,
direction is lost.
When direction is lost
purpose may be forgotten.
When purpose is forgotten
Emotion rule alone.
When emotions rule alone,
Destruction, destruction, destruction....