On Villanelles

Leonard Cohen adapted and sang a stirring and moving Villanelle for Our Time.  Perhaps the following, while rather less poetic, might serve as an epiphet for our troubled economic and environmental times?

People – especially people in positions of power – have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently - David Suzuki