Profit & Loss

from Quatrain Terminus by Gentle Ihor's Devotion

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The world lives by profit and loss. Let me tell you what happens when the world lives by profit and loss. Unscrupulous and greedy people are driven to make as much money as quickly and easily as possible. The worst possible people with the worst possible motives are encouraged to command the levers of power. Governments and corporations are controlled by the worst of the psychopaths. They sanction the wholesale destruction of the World's natural resources for the short-term benefit of their profits. What they're leaving behind for future generations is a legacy of their excrement. What the current generation has to live with is the stockpiling of the excrement on the commons. Rivers of pollution flow through the heart of society. We wallow in our own filth. Such pernicious greed will inevitably and inexorably devour its own genitals - and where is the profit in that?

In the meantime, the poor fisherman and peasants of this world pay for the luxuries of the greedy. They lose what little they have in an effort to satisfy the insatiable appetite of the morbidly obese. Why do the greedy need so much when there is no profit and loss in being a human being? When there is no profit and loss in love? When there is no profit and loss on a dead planet? When there is no profit and loss - there’s only life. And the only thing the greedy really need is to liberate themselves from the bondage of profit and loss. It’s a collective madness driving the train of humanity off the rails and into the abyss. It’s a disease of poverty; the poverty of imagination to create something better. A disease of greed. We need to eradicate it. Maybe then we’ll understand what true wealth, true power, really means.

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from Quatrain Terminus, released March 3, 2023

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Gentle Ihor's Devotion Leeds, UK

Formed in the 1980s. Their 12 inch single 'Naked' was single of the week in Melody Maker. Signed to TUG REC in Germany. Lead singer Gentle Ihor is solo now collaborating with various musicians.

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