Never. That's when I thought I'd see the unfolding of events as they are tumbling into chaotic existence this year. And look it's only July. And I fear much is unfolding unseen. I don’t know what to worry about anymore - there are so MANY choices!!
All the countries that used to be our friends and allies, but have stopped calling.
And all the people who’ve died because certain international agencies have suddenly turned on a dime and disappeared - absorbed by the so-called state department.
Will we ever have vaccine recommendations we can trust again? (Hmmm try the AMA - they still believe in science.) What happens during the next pandemic when research funding has been axed?
Will NOAA be trustable after all the climate experts have been banished? What will happen to the coast as things melt on - will AMOC stop? Will we bake in the oven of our folly? Or will a new ice age suddenly arise and make Popsicles of us all?
So many floods, epic rain and wind events in recent years! And Think of all those campers and RV-ers swept away in the night as they slept - heartbreaking. They are still searching, many finding the sudden darkness of grief....
What about all the forest fires creating swaths of charcoal out of the animate and inanimate alike? Will 47 have everyone out sweeping the forest floor, and pull all the national guard fire details to help ICE? Speaking of ICE how are the crops going to get picked? Will farmers go out of business? Will Miller reduce the US population by jailing half of us in various Alligator Alcatraz iterations? What of Due Process? Rule of Law?
And if there is a "Big One" along the Cascadia Subduction Zone - how will we recover? I don't think we will really. California is the engine for a large chunk of our national economy. By then, FEMA may be a memory, missed more and more as the months pass. As stodgy and rule bound as they were - they helped many.
And what of democracy? Of Technocrats, cryptologists and accelerationists trying to burn down the world.....
Speaking of technocrats - think of all the various AI iterations preparing to take our jobs, hallucinate new law cases and other nonfacts, run and analyze all those surveillance cams and drone-swarms, acquire human targets for.... ummm, never mind.
The only thing I can think to do is turn off Siri and never ask ChatGPT. MetaAI, Claude or Gemini etc any questions. Those other iterations, many with industrial or military purpose or having secret code names --- are too frightening to contemplate. And Grok - why don’t people realize Grok is named for a sci-fi verb that means 'communing with your dead friends by eating them'?
Zombie apocalypse indeed.
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