Not the Greeks
Achaeans, Argives, and Danaans, not
The Greeks, surrounded Troy. We simplify
The facts of history and cause a blot
On truth. Such dumbings down exemplify
The weight of arrogance and laziness
And all our slavehood in their train. We might
Be ignorant of all the haziness
Our bowing to simplification’s slight
Of expert knowledge causes, but we run
The risk of being worse than Bronze Age kings
Since we make captured slaves of everyone,
Us too, when most confuse the facts of things
With imprecisions on a buried time.
Cassandra might decry this blindfold crime.