Posted on 10/11/2019 11:05:34 AM PDT by Rummyfan
When she goes back to school, will she be in a Special Education class for autistic children?
I wrote a piece a couple years back, which lays out quite well just what I think of that so-called “prize”.
The Prize’s Price - ©2016 by (((Trevor Patrick)))
Someone recently asked
about the Nobel Peace Prize-
that if I ever won it myself,
what such an ‘honour’ would mean to me?
My mind immediately went
to Le Duc Tho,
who, along with Henry Kissinger,
was awarded it in 1973-
Well, history records,
that Tho turned down this so-called ‘peace’ prize,
due to the inconvenient fact
that there was no actual peace!
Maybe even back then,
he was ahead of the curve,
knowing that ‘peace’ is a pretty lie,
that only exists in a fairy-tale world.
Then, the awkward spectacle in 1994:
A carnival sideshow of forked-tongue speech,
and behind their backs,
you could see everyone’s fingers crossed-
the translators stumbling over the recurrent phrase:
‘...that we’ve achieved whatever it is we’ve achieved’
It was agonisingly obvious,
we were watching history’s most cynical photo-op.
Ah, but we weren’t done yet-
disingenuous photo-ops were just the start!
The following years showed,
there was so much further to go in that direction:
Like in 2009,
when, apparently the sole criterion
became the mere expedient
of getting yourself elected!
And all of a sudden,
the last scales fell away,
revealing a popularity contest
with a fancy name-
of which the MILDEST criticism
you can throw against it
is that it’s all so transparently
shallow and myopic...
Never mind the fact,
that it’s now COMPLETELY discredited,
and has become even less meaningful
than ‘team effort’ ribbons
or participation ‘trophies’.
Even worse than this,
‘Peace’ has now become officially Orwellian-
the: ‘Yeah, TOO quiet!’ cliche
warning that the hammer’s about to fall again-
-and the magic moment
when everyone stands around reloading,
or stuffing all the ballot boxes,
while the rubes think they’re actually ‘voting’.
But I WAS asked a fair question:
‘Well, what if YOU won the Peace Nobel?’
After all, the precedent’s now been set:
you can get it for doing nothing at all.
If that really IS an acceptable criterion,
then ABSOLUTELY, I am just as qualified,
yet, stupid schlub that I am,
I know I’d also turn it down.
And I’d do it for the same reason
that was offered in 1973-
all the planet’s little wars slowly joining hands,
is a Hell of a long way from ‘peace’.
Indeed, I honestly believe
there are few humans on this planet,
who actually deserve that prize-
at least in the form that Nobel intended...
So, after I turned it down,
as I think any sane person should,
towards far more deserving winners,
would I then offer my suggestions.
I’d say:
Give it to the new day sunrise:
each one restores your hope,
and dries your tears.
I’d say:
Give it to the beauty of a single minute:
more than a thousand mortals could achieve
in a hundred years.
I’d say:
Give it to the trees that old men plant,
under whose shade they know
they’ll never sit.
I’d say:
Give it to the snowflakes that gently fall
on the day that winter
starts closing in.
I’d say:
Give it to all the animals,
who, for hundreds of generations
have constantly and selflessly enriched our lives,
and I’d say:
In the end,
give it to the passage of years-
because even the mightiest empires
are powerless against time.
jOkeass got one.
LOL
She’s the official face of the totalitarian environmentalist/socialist movement. Shower the sacred messiah of Mother Earth with praise and prizes.
Norwegians know a troll when they see one.
Oh Mah Gah!
Burn Norway to the ground!
Wait a minite...
Greta Thunberg... where’ve I heard that name?
Oh, The UN Rage Baby.
Never mind. Well done, Norway.
Al Gore got the Chicken Little award in 2007. Maybe he could get her to release his Chakra?
I like it. I like it a lot.
Thank you. It was in my fifth collection: “Veruca Salt Goes to College.”
Heh.
Maybe she should date David Hogg.
Julie Dawn Cole (1971 Veruca) had an aversion to chocolate.
She’s written, “I was once a very bad egg... I’m a better one now.”
Little angry thin lipped Heidi nazi with mental problems. good riddance.
“She should get a Participation Nobel at least.”
Now that there is funny!
Snotty little poseur. She needs to learn to STFU until she has something to say which she understands.
Hell. According to this stupid excuse for a writer, Hitler should have gotten the Nobel Prize for population control.
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