Fading.
Transformation.
Pivot
point.
The past’s
dissolving,
fading away.
Always has.
Different
now.
Memories
altered.
Rewritten.
Movement
forward­.
Faster.
Blurring.
Acceleration.
Fond past
memories
few and
far between.
Fast changing.
No time.
No time
for reflection.
Can’t take
root.
Wizzing
by.
Falling.
Into the
abyss.
Nostalgia,
a thing
of the
past.
Black
hole
devours.
Memories.
Lost as
never
were.

Global
think.
Rapidly.
Injected
hearts and
minds.
One
to the
next.
Light speed
altering.
Changing
people,
souls.
Modifying
perceptions.
Le­mmings
to the
cliff.
Contemporary
Valhalla.
Manipulation
of the
new gods.
Altar of
technology.
Heads bowed.
Minds
wiped.
New
dogma,
creed
downloaded,
installed.
Minds­
wiped.
Group
think.
Created.
No options,
all now
one.
Must
adhere.
No options.
Dogma
from on
high.
Must adhere.
Group think.
Must adhere.

Quantum
ghosts.
Eyes open,
world
unfolds.
Reality,
smack dab
in the
face.
Force
fed
what’s
apparent,
what’s
real!
What’s
real?
Ba­se
reality.
Quantum
realm’s
probabilistic.
Multiple
states
simult­aneously.
Base
reality.
Infinite
possibilities
probabilities.
All­ at
once.
Field
of ghosts
staring
back.
Looking
around.
Seeing
reality
from
differen­t
perspectives.
All,
just as
real.
Substantive.
Just
a different
point of
view.
Quantum
realm.
Base
reality.
Anything’s
possible.
Everyt­hing’s
real!
Ghosts
in fuzzy
probabilities.

Ultimate.
Control.
Power.
Greed.
Human
weakness.
Who
among us
could
resist?
Who
among us
could
walk away?
Power,
wealth
beyond
imagination.
Those who
control A.I.
control all.
From on
high
power,
control
rains down.
Nothing
else matters.
Ring of
power.
No mere
mortal
could resist.
Resist
the singing
Sirens
of such a
thing.
Seduction.
Mesmerized.
The race
is on.
The end
is near.
Eyes glazed.
Perspectives
lost.
Over the
horizon
it deals.
Riches,
power
beyond
belief,
compare.
Sauron
approaches.
S­uch
is the
fate of
man.

Invasion.
Connectivity.
Bits.
Bytes.
Qubits.
Part
of the
whole.
Information.
Spun up
from whole
cloth.
Hardware.
Software.
Internet.
Quantum
computing.
Slo­wly
building.
Intertwining.
Grabbing
hold.
Mental
absorption.
Cir­cling
overhead.
Gradually
intensifying.
Artificial,
nonbiological­.
Nonemotional.
Alien!
Controlling
integration.
Welcomed
with
ope­n arms
until
it was
too late!

The
question.
Alone.
Are we
alone
in the
universe?
Foolish
question.
Unanswerable
question.
Lack
of
lo­gic.
Simple
think.
Limited
recognition.
Great ape
reasoning,
mentality.
Two
trillion
galaxies
in the
observable
universe.
Each with
billions of
stars.
Perhaps
trillions
more
galaxies
over the
horizon.
Beyond
what can
be detected.
Light
currently
seen
millions,
billions
years
in transit.
Ancient
light
from the
distant
past.
Nothing
detected.
No civilization
signatures.
Who knows
about now?
What’s going
on out
there
now?
How
could
we possibly
know?

Despots.
History.
Replete
with those
who’d
control.
Hoist
their
views,
beliefs
onto the
masses.
Today.
Look
around.
Easy
to see.
It’s everywhere.
Manipulation.
Not militarily.
Technological.
Mind melding.
Brainwashing.
One way
or the
other.
Battle zone.
Monocrats.
As with
days of
old.
Battling
for control.
Technology,
waves of
influence
circling the
globe.
Altering
perceptions.
Rewiring
thought.
Pitting one
against the
other.
As with
the past
yet more
insidious,
dangerous.
Minds
in a
vice grip.
Addicted
to the
screen.
Unable
to let
go.
New despots,
same as
the old!