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Geoffrey Deihl's avatar

This cold makes me old

As the world dies in shrieks and whispers

Fools on the rise

Sociopaths our demise

Reality digitized

Poison ingested without whimper.

I wonder in vain at so much pain

Blithely inflicted and ingested

My calm hides a rage

In the invisible cage

As the wisdom of age

Coils at all that should be detested.

Is my alienation complete?

Or shall I still speak? Into this binary void

That feeds on humanity

Are my words but a waste

A reality I must face?

In our last fight for human parity.

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Birgitte Rasine's avatar

A thousand bows of gratitude Geoff... and a million more of resilience & power!

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Geoffrey Deihl's avatar

Orwell and Huxley had it right. It's surreal watching the end unfold. What exactly do these Project 2025 people think they will be lording over on a destroyed planet? Wait, they believe in the end of days, and God will welcome them even if they have destroyed all of his creation and enacted policies that directly kill other people. Then we have the tech bros you artfully called out here. I can't help but think at the root of this is the survival instinct made lethal by opposable thumbs. On that merry note, I hope you are well.

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Birgitte Rasine's avatar

I like to think those thumbs are oppositional rather than opposable but... semantics, semantics... :P

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Geoffrey Deihl's avatar

It appears only a small minority can handle the power and responsibility of thumbs. The rest wouldn't even understand what we're talking about!

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