The Anguished Essays - CONTEMPLATION OF DECEPTION

The Anguished Essays were created with the purpose of eventually hold a series of personal Poems and general essays which would convey the enormous suffering which "the gods" have bestowed upon Humanity across the ages, perhaps as penitence for its incalculable sins and cruel deeds... Yet upon completion of "The Contemplation of Sorrow" (the first poem I wrote), in 2005, I left it shelved for a number of years. Nonetheless, in April 2010, I was persuaded to convert this poem into my first video, bearing the same tittle: "Contemplation of Sorrow"..

In light of the unexpected feedback received in Youtube, also due to the encouragement of my wonderful virtual friends, I decided to create a second poem, fairly in line with the original, thereby enabling me to establish my intended "collection". This time around, however, I have converted my new work into a video immediately thereafter (May 2010), thereby formalizing the collection i had endeavored to undertake - Under the same series "ANGUISHED ESSAYS" and following the same style & pattern - hoping to partly emulate my previous relative "success", I uploaded the Contemplation of Deception with the "high expectation" of meeting with the approval of my readers and Youtube friends/subscribers.

Unlike the first poem of the series however, which was created on account of a personal matter, the CONTEMPLATION OF DECEPTION has three underlying themes:
1 - DENIAL OF THE WESTERN WORLD'S SO-CALLED "IDEALIZED LOVE", which, in my opinion represents a cruel fallacy...
2 - A CRITICISM OF CORPORATE ARROGANCE", namely, the hypocritical random policies often adopted by huge conglomerates, allegedly designed to comply with certain regulations, which however baffle and /or confound their customers and users, whereas rendering them captive victims of an exceedingly complex web of circular and subjective instructions.
3 - A CRITICISM OF DECEPTIVE LATIN AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS, WHOSE DECEPTIVE AND POPULIST TACTICS MANIPULATES HUGE SECTORS OF THE ELECTORATE, PARTICULARLY THE LEAST EDUCATED AND LESS PRIVILEGED MEMBERS OF THEIR NATIONS (SPECIFICALLY I REFER TO THE BOLIVARIAN MOVEMENT OF THE VENEZUELAN SOCIALIST DICTATOR HUGO CHAVEZ AND THE BRAZILIAN LABOR PARTY OF THE DECEPTIVE, UNEDUCATED LUIZ INACIO DA SILVA (LULA) AND HIS HORRIFIC EX-REVOLUTIONARY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DILMA ROUSSEFF.

- Criticism of LOVE: Due to Trovadorism during the Middle Ages (France & Portugaliza - currently Portugal & Galicia). Because of these early highly idealized romantic notions, most citizens of the Western World are held hostage of non-existent notions of Romantic Love - throughout their lives - by virtue of their being influenced by glamorized scenarios, and reaching the point of developing the "GREAT EXPECTATIONS" of one day "reaching Nirvana" by achieving such unrealistic states of "Eternal Bliss". In my Poem, Hades, the God of the Underworld, being aware of the non-existence of the idyllic notion of "romantic interludes", fully aware that only LUST and PASSION actually rule the hearts of Men, decides to take advantage of the situation in order to secure a long coveted commodity: "the possession of Aphrodite". Thus, Hades fabricates the "assassination of LOVE" with the assistance of a myriad of entities, and captures the lovely Goddess, rendering his "prisoner", by illegally accusing her of murdering "a non-existent entity".