Hum-de-dum. I was working, then I stopped. The poem reached out to me and withdrew its hand before I could get the thing written down. Sigh. I am trying to compare/contrast the migration of fauna to the endless cycle of human beings destroying each other… the build up to a great war seems always with us. Is it part of a cycle? Natural selection? I thought Covid would level us a bit, but science was too quick and too smart… we survived. Ha. Will we survive Donald Trump and Co.? It’s a good question that people who are smarter than me can’t seem to figure out yet. Sure looks bad, though, don’t it?
Since we are not to be given peace, we will need to take it. NO, not by violence – violence is only peace in Newspeak. We will need to drift our eyes back down toward our own testpaper and forget what the fools are doing. Today? Musk called Mamdani— ‘Mamdami or whatever’—- as if ‘Musk’ were an ordinary, white, American name? Well, folks…it certainly isn’t ‘Joe Smith’ now, is it?
How in heaven or hell did we get here? I have to think that too many people have no respect for education, for art, for spirituality, for creativity. The tik-tok-ers are running out the clock on creativity, on love, on real things. They are wiggling perfect asses and little of substance gets through. The boys and girls are handsome as heck, though.
A few real artists take to the ‘reels’ with honest humour or genuine art but it seems few and far between. Myself as a wanna-be artist? I have trouble getting past the hurdles, am now struggling with my computer and its imposed AI component. Perversely, something that I am writing is what AI suggests be summarized for me? This is the message I get when I am editing something. ‘LOOKS LIKE THIS IS A LONG DOCUMENT, SHALL I SAVE YOU TIME AND SUMMARIZE IT FOR YOU?’
Yikes. If that is what folks are doing, then no wonder there is no depth, no thought, no reflection, nothing but a hollow sound from deep in the well. Now, Windows and many browsers will not let you get away from the automation. We are being pushed toward what can only be described as a bitter end. What is human about the machine? Its design, its build and only that. The rest is approximation and just like Edison’s co-option of the cylinder for ‘storing’ sound…AI is co-opting (or trying to) creativity. See? This is the thing: AI cannot imagine, it can only repeat, deduce from what it has seen. That is plagiarism, nothing more.
How very boring life will become, under AI, if Trump does not succeed in destroying civilization himself. Oh, by the way…Imagine? One man on the lips of 7 billion others and not kindly. Ahh, screw it….
even under these conditions, there comes a beautiful day like today. My feet never seem to warm up anymore but that is ok, I can wear socks, drink a nice coffee, look out the window and glory in being unproductive. this may not last but, in the meantime, I shall enjoy wasting the day.
Robert On The Air 