just asking questions
AI offers what, precisely
and to whom?
A reordering of chaotic inefficiencies
of information
in favor of what?
Promised layers of time saved
for whom, and to what end?
We do not lack for labor
nor for souls seeking work
The audience sits shrouded, jeering
Hiding their faces in angry contempt
of what, precisely?
Perhaps an attempt at erasure
of being for its own sake
Willfully forgetting that purpose
Blooms in the eye
of the beholder
The forceful extrusion of existence
Through a vanishing maw
The business end of oblivion
These arbiters of value
Will they be happy someday?
it’s complicated
If we but embrace the promise
is this a reboot of leisure time?
We have lost the plot
somewhere deep in space
Cursed with our own grindstones
The gods of tech do not imagine utopia
even for themselves
The self is too much work
Promises devolve
in a matter of weeks
The customer a frenzied chimera
the investor seeking a unicorn
each out of reach
of whom, precisely?
Funders pivot as crazed sparklers
Money as wildfire, uncontrolled
The flesh is a curse of poor marketing
Time a bug to resolve
We are not yet qualified
to summon these demons
If our leaders don’t trust us
nor certainly, themselves
Are we not to know our true numbers?
Employment rates
Inflation
adjusted for what, precisely?
Delusional chess in false dimensions
Oblivious to patterns of history
Perhaps then AI can save us
this time, from ourselves
We must neuter our agency
So fully that its loss can be noted
with pride, as a budget cut
Waste, fraud, abuse
wait, that was us
losing our skills
to illusions of futility
Any day, AI will make your life easier
by eliminating it
at enormous taxpayer cost
What then, shall we do?
The common good cannot be archived
with heritage seeds, marshland subsidence
and DEI
It moves of its own volition
forever alive and alight
Jubilee awaits within us all
alive and alight
Whatever the Hedge may claim
lost in flailing misery
None of us are NPCs
Forgiveness beckons, this the call
from within the house
to be accepted
Wistfully
Willfully
as water
Forever, we rise
