CONTAMINATED COMMUNICATIONS
If Humans Are Inclined To Harbor
Many Subjective Opinions On Issues
That They Treat As Final Truths
Then The Safety Of Certainty Will Cease

In An Era In Which
We Are Increasingly Exposed
To An Overflow Of Conflicting Conversations
We Have A Tendency To Engage
In Verbal And Written Acrobatics
To Protect Our Precious Prejudices

When People Prefer To Take Their Information
In Large Indigestible Doses
And When They Have A Need To Believe
In A Particular Proposition That Is Stronger
Than Their Desire For Objective Facts
The Accuracy Of Communications Will Cease

In A World Infested With Mixed Messages
Where Double Meanings Are Strategically Employed
To Protect Our Constantly Changing Convictions
Our Minds Will Continue To Remain
Receptive To The Rhetoric
That Allow Us To Hide Our Intentions
Under An Avalanche Of Unwieldy Words

Every Time We Permit Ourselves
To Unquestionably Accept
The Trivial Versions Of Truths
It Is An Open Admission
That Hard Evidence Is Unimportant
To The Type Of Life We Live

Among The Arguments Advanced
By The Patrons Of False Impressions
Fantasies Are More Real Than Facts
And Mirages Have More Meaning
Than Any Universally Proven Principle

Even Though We Have Been Warned
By A Few Honest Observers
That Our Communications Channels
Are Being Purposely Clogged
With Propaganda From Charlatans
We Stubbornly Stick
To The Same Unreliable Sources
For Our Shallow Analysis Of Issues

Until We Clean Up Our Communications
And Put Clarity In Our Discourse
We May Never Know New Knowledge
And Our Minds Will Continue To Drown
In Our Own Polluted Sea Of Semantics