Landline telephones
Ringing themselves back to sleep
Leave a message at the beep
But no one checks their messages
We’re all blocked and silent
With vibrating pants.
Texting is the fake new deal
Pretending we’re real
No one’s listening
just Homeland security
Amazon and the corporate
CIA henchmen spinning lies.
Facebook posting pics
Of lunch envy goop
Burritos dripping slop
Pork face bone soup
During the Trump apocalypse
While waiting for Uber’s Lyft.
No one talks for hours anymore
About life or love or visions.
Just bored distracted lonely fools
Hypnotized by phones like ghouls
Tanked full on GMOs, pesticides and corn
Coffee causes cancer too
What are we gonna do?
I kind of need it to survive
My full time work sentence
With credit card benefits sucks.
Cut off the power
Go off the grid
Live underground in caves
Like the Sleestak lizards did
In The Land of the Lost
Is that what we’re becoming next?
This roller coaster torture won’t stop
It’s stuck on rage and insanity.
Rage and insanity, so true, Judy. All the best.
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Thanks Dennis!
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An excellent poem describing what the world is like in the 2nd decade of the 21st Century.
I’m actually starting to miss the days of the old landline telephone with dial tone.
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I miss the old school world, the spiritual era of Pisces. Age of Aquarius is supposed to end up well but it has a dark technology vibe right now.
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🙂 hang in there… only 50 or so lifetimes to go, and soul people will be needed more & more who can chronicle with one eye still opened the follies of the Age of Artificial Stupidity.
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Will Earth be around or we have morphed into artificial beings by then? That’s what transhumanists want.
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It’s the part of the human which is core, essential, which they eschew, in their desperate wish to become algorithms. Non-humans, not trans, as I see it. But just a crazy fantasy I think. Not realizable. Technology cannot reach spirit — if we want to preserve it, those of us who do, will.
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I agree, they want to eliminate what makes us human. No respect for the cycle of living. I hope you’re right and it’s an unattainable fantasy of theirs to live forever as machine.
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You know, this topic was a pet obsession of mine eight or so years ago. I spent time in various AI forums trying to figure out what makes such people tick. (I had a software background.) I also attended a so-called Singularity conference to listen to the ideas of key people, etc. in NYC. They often had a curious kind of abstract nihilism about humanity. They were cavalier, to me, about humanity’s fate — as though well, that’s evolution, the next pinnacle comes along and overtakes us, and it is ‘artificial’. And almost always they firmly believed: we cannot solve our problems alone; we are dead in the water without entrusting our hopes to better-thinking machine minds. I thought alot about what is amiss in their worldview. And best I could arrive at was that they are materialists, to their core. Completely alienated from any concept of spirit, be it human or otherwise. I wrote about this a little, sort of in the concluding portions of this essay: https://skirmisheswithreality.net/2015/10/28/3-approaches-to-ethics/
I realize it must be ultra-repressive to have to live in the midsts of the epicenter of this stuff in SF area. But the answer, I think, as Jaron Lanier puts it, is to double down on our humanity in the face of these distortions. 🙂 It’s just that more and more of us have to do this.
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I agree, they’re materialists that don’t respect the cycle of life. One lifetime is enough to process for awhile, one continuous existence seems meaningless.
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“During the Trump apocalypse
While waiting for Uber’s Lyft.
No one talks for hours anymore
About life or love or visions.”
What a brilliant verse, Judy!
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Thank you!
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