O Man unkind, do you recall
\nthe future we had planned?
\nWith liberty for one and all,
\nabundance close at hand?<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever.\u201d<\/p>\n
All knowledge now accessible,
\nwe still make up our own,
\nour egos irrepressible,
\nconviction like a stone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever.\u201d<\/p>\n
To generate the power needed
\nwe harnessed that of atoms.
\nIt was attacked and superseded
\nby that of Eve\u2019s and Adam\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever.\u201d<\/p>\n
We turn to God to justify
\nour hatred of our brothers:
\n\u201cOur true belief,\u201d we testify,
\n\u201cdemands we kill all others\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever.\u201d<\/p>\n
And now the world is set to burn
\nin poisons we created.
\nWe only care for bucks we earn
\nas others are cremated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now all the techs compete to build
\nthe best and smartest \u2019bot
\nwhile pundits warn we\u2019ll all be killed
\nby AIs, like as not.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fascism is again in fashion
\nall across the world:
\nas everyone forgets compassion,
\nbanners are unfurled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever.\u201d O Man unkind, do you recall the future we had planned? With liberty for one and all, abundance close at hand? \u201cWhatever.\u201d All knowledge now accessible, we still make up our own, our egos irrepressible, conviction like a stone. \u201cWhatever.\u201d To generate the power needed we harnessed that of atoms.Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cWhatever<\/em>.\u201d
\n\u201cWhatever<\/strong><\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"