more charlatanism

for Hegel, despotism's the ideal
one mind to tell the nation what to do
as if to show a system to be real
were tantamount to proving it were true
at liberty, once Kant was safely dead
to claim to bear the standard of pure thought
while turning what the man said on its head
and bringing all philosophy to naught
his slaves as free to serve as he to reign

each fill their best potentials in this life

thus everyone is spared the toil and strain

of trading static tyranny for strife
contemptuous of making himself clear
he served up what his patron chose to hear