Thinking Allowed

First, nice to see a sonnet again, I've read so much free verse lately I was beginning to think maybe I'd just imagined structure existed. 

Occasionally the IP is a little difficult to force, though you don't lose it entirely -- L12 is the most glaring example but when reciting aloud it's fine since I get into chant mode.  And of course, extra points for using misanthropes (makes me feel right at home).  I did pause momentarily at L9 also, but quickly realised it's a matter of sounding out every single syllable properly and oh how happy my elocution teacher would be.

I do think the babbling Babel thing's been overdone too much to make it clever enough here, and of course "blind as fate" is a cliche BUT I think it's perfectly acceptable given the couplet as a whole.