Radioactive
Monsters attack en masse
Not all rockets win.
My little haiku captures a truth worth remembering. Sometimes the good guys lose. Sometimes identifying the so-called good guys can be tough. Who is inside that rocket? Is Godzilla defending his home? His culture?
That last year teaching, teachers used to look at me. Say something! Their eyes said. But I was done. Crazy is crazy and does not respond to reason. Sometimes the good guys lose.
I feel the same way as I watch politics now. My ballot is in. I retweet to help certain candidates. But if you are waiting for a secret microchip to kill your vaxxed relatives, I have nothing to say to you. You missed a boat somewhere so long ago that I doubt you know what a boat even looks like now.
Still I wonder — what happened to actual thinking? There’s a great scene in the old film “War Games.”
Stephen Falken : But does it make any sense?
General Beringer : Does what make any sense?
Stephen Falken : [points to the screens] That!
General Beringer : Look, I don’t have time for a conversation right now.
Stephen Falken : [Falken speaks as he approaches] General, are you prepared to destroy the enemy?
General Beringer : You betcha!
Stephen Falken : Do you think they know that?
General Beringer : I believe we’ve made that clear enough.
Stephen Falken : [face to face] Then don’t! Tell the President to ride out the attack.
Colonel Joe Conley : Sir, they need a decision.
Stephen Falken : General, do you really believe that the enemy would attack without provocation, using so many missiles, bombers, and subs so that we would have no choice but to totally annihilate them?
What are we to say to people who think their own government is preparing to wipe out millions of its own citizens using mysterious nanotechnology? To wipe them out for doing what the government tells them to do no less. That’s not to say we should buy everything the government says or does. It’s reasonable to have doubts about new science. But…
Damn, there is a lot of crazy out there right now.
Zombie phrase for the day: Elon would be delicious with sriracha sauce. Eeeewahhn ooohhd eee wishshhhuhhs wihd reerahzhaah zahhhzz.
