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They would all know from early childhood that "if you don't work, you die", and "the wages of sin is death"! That the Dog returns to his Vomit and
the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the
brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will
burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! My father asked me what I thought of this poem several years ago
and while it sounded interesting I couldn't tell him anything about Copybook Headings and now I find myself staring at this poem once again and I
am hoping someone could provide me with some more insight. Merge this question into. This is not about the virtue of the free market over
socialism. The gods of the copybook are eternal truths. Unfortunately, few children and few adults today have any idea of what these proverbs
mean or why each one is the doorway to a concept of basic morality and values that used to be universal in our society. The final line shows that
the slaughter and horror comes and of course the Gods of the Copy Book headings has to return with the unhappy outcomes of following the
seductive and unreal ideas. You will find things like: Communism refers to all people working towards the common good. They are blind appeals
to authority without wisdom or discernment. It only becomes complicated if we attempt to read it through the lens of a political viewpoint, weather
modern or contempary with the time of Kipling. Was this answer useful? They would abandon honesty, and without honesty there would be no
reason to trust anyone else. Pacifism become popular, patriotism unpopular, and religious beliefs and their attendant morality had suffered a serious
setback. Ye must eat where it lies; And no one may carry away of that meat to his lair, or he dies. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet,
short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his
tales for children. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: The cold, hard truth. Analysis of
the poem. These do endure longer than the Gods of the Market Place, but they are little better than the latter. So will Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the
patron saint of environmentalists even if they don't know it. I write poetry and it is obvious Kipling was simply reminding the reader that man will
always try to remove himself from those truths that he cannot control and that he will eventually fail. When the Cambrian measures were forming,
They promiced perpetual peace. They were our only protection from speculators and revolutionaries well financed and in worldwide collusion. In
today's economy, the hard truth is that we can't spend, consume, manipulate and inflate our way to general prosperityas opposed merely to the
enrichment of Democratic Party interest groups. The Copybook headings being proverbs and axioms we have heard from childhood, The Gods of
the Copybook headings become their creators whose ultimate goal revolves around passing along wisdom or eternal truths. Or things that rust
decay and fall to pieces? The Kill of the Wolf is the meat of the Wolf. It has always been the default value system since before we first climbed
down from the trees and began to think in abstractions. Suffering calibrates us, trues us up, and brings us back to reality. This is an extreme
example, but there are more subtle examples of cultural conditioning and predictive programming all around us if you choose to look. What they
want to export to the US its called control liberalization https: Posted on by a guest. And that is the only way we humans learn. Fool us once
shame on you, full us a hole bunch more shame on Us. The zeitgeist of the day therefore became a stew of Marxism and the abandonment of
traditional values by a sexually liberated "popular culture" think the "roaring twenties" in many of the most prosperous countries. Kings and queens
were not near as harsh or despotic as we were all led to believe. Split and merge into it. When we have nowhere else to turn, we will turn to God -
they are His truths. I think in the end it is an entirely political poem. And so will John Maynard Keynes, godfather of Obamanomics. Kipling writ
es the poem to encourage people to be the wise people. Why did he use? I'm sure everyone knows this. This was exactly what Kipling meant
when he coined the phrase! Vanity of Vanities, all is vanity and striving after the wind. My home page Readings index. I find it disturbing and
hilarious that Glen Beck would use such a twisted view of the work to sell a book. This about the folly of ignoring common sense. We need to turn
back to traditionalism! When Kipling lived he saw this first hand and this poem was a warning to all of us because he knew that the burnt fools
bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire. Leaving England and the rest of the world that lives or lived in a servitude like state behind. In the
long run, this will require institutional reforms, such as creating an independent judiciary and combating corruption. They have been for over years
been slowly destroying capitalism so they can set back up what they lost when we broke free from Europe. He is angry enough to kill-but there
seems to be some sort of reason behind this anger. The Gods of the Market Place are those of ideological fashion, and in a sense, folly. This poem
tells us how as cultures we fall for false prophets, false promises, lose our faith, become bedazzled by governing forces. We were living in trees
when they met us.