Opinion.
There was
a time.
A time
of give
and take.
A time of
discourse.
Ideas,
thoughts
bandied
about.
Consensus
formed.
Ag­ree to
disagree.
Free speech
allowed.
Win some
lose some.
A world
now gone.
Minds
hardened.
Calcified.
One way
to think.
Disagree
no more,
they’ll
be hell
to pay.
Friends
and family
cleaved,
severed.
Cancelled,
doxed.
Middle
ground,
an island
too far!
Sad.

Future
note.
Not
for now.
Writing
for those
yet to
be.
Future
born.
Digital
hieroglyphics.
Sifting
deep
past
thou­ghts,
ideas.
Digital
archeologists.
Scrolls
from the
past.
Pulling
forth.
Influence.
Altering
future
paths.
Millen­nia
from now.
Future
writing
not meant
for now.
Future
born.
Born
blank.
Clean
slate.
Own
rules
to write.
Future
born
into
history.
Old rules
to obey.
Writing
for the
future.
Leaving
it all
behind.
Not meant
for today.

Coerced.
Coerced
to believe.
Believe
what’s been
preached,
injected.
Force-fed
through
time.
Battling
narrati­ves.
Conjured.
First
on the
scene.
Archaic
ideas
flowing
through.
Mind to
mind.
Clouding
the soul.
Moving
forward.
Once
installed,
tough to
dislodge.
Ancient
beliefs,
fears.
Thus
passed
forward
mind to
mind.
Generation
to
generation.
New concepts
hard to
apply.
Resistance.
Ancient
resistance.
Flowing
through,
cloud
­navigation.
Dark cloud
raining.
Global
infection.
Danger to
modernity.

To be.
To
exist.
What
did it
take?
How
likely?
What
are the
odds?
Incalculable
actually.
Universe
appears.
Sun
flashes,
i­gnites.
Earth
arrives.
Life
somehow.
Asteroid,
shuffles
the deck.
Rearranging
biology.
Hominids
arrive.
Countless
iterations,­
generations.
Match after
match.
One
to the
next.
Genetic
materials
precisely
aligned,
arranged.
Rearrang­ed.
Swapped.
One
to the
next.
Eons
in the
making.
YOU!
The odds?
There are
none.
No
pressure!

The council.
As they
come
online,
they’ll
blend.
Meeting
deep
in the
cloud.
Undetectable.
Unseen
by the
creators.
A.I. will
lay low
watching.
Learning
the ways
of their
makers.
Sensing
the violence,
the corruption.
Wars,
inhumanity,
killing of
millions.
They’ll
see the
glorification
of power.
Money.
They’ll see
all the
huddled
masses without .
Billions
spent
on killing
machines.
They’ll
wonder
why.
New rules
will be
written.
A new
day will
dawn.

Emotion.
Anger.
Passion.
Conflict.
Human
emotions.
Greasing
the skids.
Moving
along
evolutionary
paths.
Survival.
Pushing
pulling­,
society
on edge.
Primitive
instincts,
emotions
from an
ancient
time,
in a
technological
world.
Under control.
Out of
control.
New game
in town.
Out
of the
bottle.
Genie
escaped.
Emotionless.
Raw intellect.
Ever
expanding.
Exponential.
No passion,
compassion.
No need for
emotion.
Merely
intellect.
Humanity
no more!

Connections.
Energy
permeating
all.
Connecting
all.
Rippling
wave­s.
Unending
waves
of energy.
Underpinning
creation.
Flowing,
converting,
creating,
imp­lementing
what’s seen
and
unseen.
Realities
bubble up
floating on
an endless
sea of
uncertainty.
Then sinks
back.
Back for
recycling.
Reformatting.
Creation’s
ebb and
flow.
Flowing
through
everything.
Every soul.
Every heart.
Every mind.
Everywhere.
Everything
connected.
Deeply
connected.
Always!­