This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Are we seeing the future here or witnessing our decline? Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested. But not arrested for sex crimes, but for his big-mouth crimes. A clever technicality, perhaps? Focus on Andrew’s part of the bargain and not Epstein’s part. Andrew ran his big mouth, and Epstein provided sex with underage girls. Epstein used the inside information on Wall Street or passed it on to his handlers.

Jail is jail, right? Never mind why. Did the Royal family and good King Charles see this coming, and preemptively throw Andrew out of the family? Is it the future? Will we see something like this in our own country? Or in this country is justice blind and sees nothing? The mango maniac wobbles around Air Force One singing, “I’m exonerated.” When we all know otherwise. It makes American justice look weak and feeble.

British justice at least has the illusion of impartiality. While American justice appears as it is, largely imaginary and just for show. The Mar-a-Lago moron weaponized the Justice Department to go after his enemies, and yet, the biggest criminal of the 21^st Century is immune from prosecution. Did you know the American taxpayer just donated ten billion dollars to Donald Trump’s Bored of Fleece? Headed up by Donald Trump himself, of course, for life. He just donated ten billion tax dollars to himself. Just reached into the Treasury and scooped out ten billion dollars. And Pam (Sargent Schultz) Bondi sees nothing.

There were four FBI interviews with an Epstein victim who claimed Donald Trump had raped her when she was fourteen years old. This victim sued Epstein’s estate and won a judgement. Credible? Yes! How many interviews were included in the Epstein documents? One! Three disappeared by memory wipe, and one heavily redacted interview appeared. “I’ve been exonerated! I’ve been exonerated!” It’s like living in Nazi Germany when the truth and the official truth collide. When the first American P-51 Mustang fighter planes were shot down near Berlin. Hermann Göring  was furious and demanded all reports of American fighter planes over Berlin be scrubbed. It wasn’t true by official proclamation!

Less than two months before the end of the war, with Russian troops on German soil and Allied troops advancing from the other direction. The Luftwaffe planning commission approved building a new jet bomber. The Luftwaffe was largely grounded at this time due to fuel shortages. But in denial and fantasy, they planned to build a new jet bomber. Madness is self-perpetuating and constantly accelerating. That new bomber was going to save them from the obvious coming defeat. Wonder weapons! Magic thinking will save us!

Wall Street dumps all the money they can lay their greedy little hands on into Artificial Intelligence. It’s the next big thing! It’s going to fix everything. We’re all going to get rich! It’s going to be wonderful! Just wait! Once we get that new bomber flying, everything will be fine again. It’s a wonder weapon. Fourth and ten, go long, Mary, and I’ll throw you the football!  What will AI actually do? “Just everything!” No, specifically, what will it do? “Well, it will do just everything! It will answer questions which have plagued mankind for centuries!” Like what? “Everything!”

It’s a new and powerful advanced technology, and once in place, we can figure out exactly what it is capable of doing.” It’s a solution without a question. Boeing, America’s lost aviation giant, had a plan. Aviation manufacturing was too labor intensive. Every worker eliminated meant more profit. So Boeing spent a billion dollars on robotic riveters. Ha, ha, ha! You’re all fired! Dumb humans. We have robots now! Only the robotic riveters made mistakes, costly mistakes, requiring human workers to come back and fix the errors. It’s just teething problems. Just wait! A little three and one oil and the turn of a screw and we can fix it! After wasting another billion dollars, the robots were given their electronic pink slips and finally trashed. But technology is always the answer! Always! You know, it’s new and improved!

Boeing’s Dreamliner has been effectively scrapped by NASA after a scathing 300-page report. As the Dreamliner’s failings became apparent, Boeing brushed away all the criticism as easy to repair minor details. Risking crew safety in the name of corporate profits. There were no American fighters over Berlin! Do you understand? That’s an order!

Elon’s Robo-taxis have a problem besides crashing at four times the rate of human drivers. People are leaving the doors open, and the computer can’t shut the doors. The solution? Hire Uber drivers to come and shut the doors. Going to Mars? Hardly! When they can’t successfully navigate a taxi through Austin, Texas.

Behind the confident smiles and calm appearances. Wall Street is shitting itself. Trump tariffs and terrors have rattled their cages. They are hearing the screech and waiting for the inevitable crash. What to do? What to do? Where can we invest now? Artificial Intelligence is the next big thing! It’s a new jet bomber sure to turn things around! It’s going to be great, everyone says so! Remember that band “A Flock of Seagulls?” They were going to be bigger than the Beatles! It’s the all-new 1958 Ford Edsel! The car of the future! You’re going to love it! Many a slip between a cup and a lip.

Everything is fine and wonderful. No need to worry! Germany and Ireland are the latest countries to issue travel advisories about visiting the US, Joining Canada, Belgium, France and the UK, warning their citizens about the perils of visiting the US. Floriduh governor Ron DeSantis calls it left-wing hoopla. There are no American fighter planes over Berlin, and that’s an order!

It’s all part of their rock and roll fantasy. Reality can’t lay a finger on us if we pretend it can’t. I’ve learned one thing watching the media. Don’t believe a word they say! Newly elected New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani said without help from the state. He might have to raise property taxes 9.9%. As the media explodes! SEE! SEE! The Socialist are going to raise your taxes! How many other American mayors have warned their citizens of tax increases? But more to the point. Who owns property in New York City? Do Joe Six-pack and Mary Lunchpail own those forty-story office towers? Oh, details, details. Who cares about those?

Stephen Colbert calls out SEE BS for attempting to censor a political guest. Circle the wagons! FCC chairman Brendan Carr runs to Fox News to defend SEE BS. SEE BS says it’s not so, It’s not true! There are no P-51s over Berlin. But the noise and the mass furor says there are. And the louder they shout, the more they prove it! What gives the issue its power? Colbert or their loud denials?

The sky isn’t falling! The land is rising! Everything is wonderful! Machines, robots and AI are going to fix everything, like our new jet bombers! Any day now, Der Fuhrer will unleash his wonder weapons! And AI will fix everything.

“One man, one family driven from the land; this rusty car
creaking along the highway to the west. I lost my land, a
single tractor took my land. I am alone and bewildered.
And in the night one family camps in a ditch and another
family pulls in and the tents come out. The two men squat
on their hams and the women and children listen. Here is the
node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these
two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each
other. Here is the anlarge of the thing you fear. This is the
zygote. For here “I lost my land” is changed; a cell is split
and from its splitting grows the thing you hate–“We lost our
land.” The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely and
perplexed as one. And from this first “we” there grows a still
more dangerous thing: “I have a little food” plus “I have
none.” If from this problem the sum is “We have a little
food,” the thing is on its way, the movement has direction.
Only a little multiplication now, and this land, this tractor are
ours. The two men squatting in a ditch, the little fire, the side-
meat stewing in a single pot, the silent, stone-eyed women;
behind, the children listening with their souls to words their
minds do not understand. The night draws down. The baby
has a cold. Here, take this blanket. It’s wool. It was my mother’s
blanket–take it for the baby. This is the thing to bomb.
This is the beginning–from “I” to “we.”

If you who own the things people must have could understand
this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate
causes from results, if you could know Paine, Marx,
Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive.
But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes
you forever into “I,” and cuts you off forever from the “we.”

-John Steinbeck