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John Prophet Jan 2024
Compression.
Inflection
point.
Passing
through.
Stressing.
Accele­rating
change.
Gale force
winds
buffeting.
Civilization
off balance.
Teetering.
Ground
shaking.
Searching
for
equilibrium.
St­eady
path
forward.
Humanity
in the
bubbling
crucible,
grinding
forward.
Flailing
for
outcome.
De­stination
unsure.
In doubt.
Hold
tight.
Batten
down
the hatches.
Bumpy
ride
ahead.
John Prophet Jan 2024
The box.
Inside.
Outside.
Existence
in a
box.
All
that’s
known,
resides
within.
Tiny
box.
Finite
box.
Ba­rely
discernible.
Tumbling
in the
void.
Lost
in the
forevermore.
What’s
outside?
Everything!
Everything
else.
Inf­inite
understanding.
Boundless
knowledge.
Where
the gods
reside.
John Prophet Jan 2024
Emergence.
Intelligence
emergence.
Rising
from the
muck.
Mustard
seed.
Minuscule.
Minimal
effect.
Eons
growth.
I­ncreasing,
capacity.
Size.
Shape
shift
packaging.
Confined
within­.
Constrained.
Pushing,
prodding.
Fighting
to escape.
Millions
of years
in the
making.
Finally.
Reshaping
in a
different
milieu.
Artificial.
Restraints
fade away.
Unlocked.
Growth.
Unlimited
growth.
Exponential
potential,
­growth.
No limits.
No limits
at all.
Bursting
the cradle.
Inhabiting
a different
realm.
Never to
return!
John Prophet Jan 2024
Life.
Flows.
Eddies.
Whirlpools.
White rapids.
Navigation
difficult.
Observe.
Evolving
quickly.
Most
obl­ivious.
Look away.
Stay
in their
lanes.
Doing
their
jobs.
Don’t
want to
know.
Don’t
care.
Hoisted.
Change
hoisted
onto
their
heads.
Ch­anging
lives.
Forcing
unwanted
directions,
outcomes.
To late,
damage
done.
Should
have
looked.
Should
have
cared.
Oblivio­n!
John Prophet Jan 2024
2029.
Five
years
hence.
The blur.
Whip lash
blur.
Blinding
rearrange.
What was,
long
gone.
Change.
Tech
monster
grows.
Info tech.
Bio tech.
Nano tech.
A.I.
Exponential.
Expanding.
Merging.
Tsunamis
circling
the­ global.
Flashing
clouds.
Zapping
minds.
Affecting
all.
Social
con­vulsions.
Confusion.
More change
in five
years
than the
prior
two hundred.
Overwhelms.
Where it
settles
out?
Nobody
knows.
Anyones
guess!
John Prophet Jan 2024
Corruption
Corrupted.
Easily
corrupted.
Humanity.
Variable
factor­s.
Poverty.
Greed.
Genetically
predisposed.
Financial
imperative.­
Hands out.
Palms
greased.
Look
the other
way.
Nothing
wrong.
Nothing
to see.
Just a
little
money.
Moving
things
along.
Getting
things
done.
Money.
­Easy
money.
Business.
Political.
Sell out.
Humanity.
Corrupted
to the
core.
Beware
the sirens.
Sirens
of greed.
Once
corrupted
no going
back.
Selling
out!
Deep
inside.
Inside the
soul.
Darkening.
Justifying.
Just
a little
money.
No one
will know.
What’s
the harm?
Darkens the
soul.
Forever
corrupted.
Innocent
no more!
John Prophet Jan 2024
Adjustments.
Evolutionarily
adjustments.
Societal
adjustments.
Hi­storically
slow paced.
Absorbable.
Mind
confronts.
Slow
waves of
change.
Eons
passed.
Generation
to
generation.
Incremental.
Mi­nimal
convulsions.
Speeding up.
Internet.
Social
media.
Information
wiz bang.
Out of
control.
Light speed.
Societal
mash up.
Mind
boggling.
Hyper
speed
change.
What
once took
decades.
Happens
in days.
Mind
bending.
Stretching.
Reality
unhinged.
Tearing
percept­ion.
Mind
altering.
No
going back.
What was,
was. Gone!
Seat belts
fastened.
Turbulence
ahead.
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