These people are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanicks.... Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, Jonathan Swift, 1726

Truths hosted as self-evident
to shape the path of man’s ascent
give certainty that God will bless
His children’s thirst for happiness;
transparency born of Reason
reassures there is no treason
in promising that all might see
desire serviced through Liberty.

Laid upon each mature nation
is a holy obligation
to let man's soaring intellect
be Utopia's architect;
heeding a truth convenient,
that Nature needs man management.

Any speculator who invests,
bids for an earth of paying guests,
determined they should only see
sweet virtual reality:
in garish plastic will dispense
titillation of every sense;
within the pages of Hello!
find briefings on life's rich tableau -
a film star's steamy deviance,
some minor royal's sad romance;
lighten an evening's ennui
with on-line voting on TV,
observing who will titter most -
celeb or fawning chat show host;
see the known world by budget air
repackaged into anywhere,
nation speaking unto nation
through audience participation,
the waiter's tortured aria
will complement the sangria
and the authentic souvenir
provide diversion from the beer.

Show pained surprise that some resent
this version of a life well-spent
that only sought a world made stable,
crumbs spilling from a well-stocked table
gifted to those who with good grace
maintained their designated place,
ignoring calls to revolution,
turning their backs on retribution
in faith that sweeter crumbs would fall
to measured joy in great and small.

Meanwhile our righteous power
ensures all futures stand secure;
we only ask that all might see
our vision of equality
and in their gratitude defer
to the unleashed entrepreneur.
Now is the time to realise
agendas set to globalise;
but know that we shall not be moved
by axes of ingratitude,
nor see highjackers turn to dust
an edifice in which we trust;
the brave seek out in roaming free
redemption through technology,
a gifted global wanderlust
shaped by the God in whom we trust.