Screen time

Screenshot: Things are looking up. (© image)

Time seems to crawl

For the whole dependent

Mind’s grasping stretch

First adopter. Adventurer. Fool. Survivor.

You scream. They scream. We all screen for bugged dreams.

Onward, the only way out – the wolves at the floor.

A toe hold. For today, anyway

A small step away from the screens

To get things done.

Meanwhile have fun

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.

Got a little time?

Love dinosaurs, human species’ anthropocentrism, climate change?

And now back to our regularly scheduled Ice Age…

Peter Brannen’s article from The Atlantic: “The Anthropocene is a Joke”

• “… If 100 million years can easily wear the Himalayas flat, what chance will San Francisco or New York have?…”
• “…Unless we fast learn how to endure on this planet, and on a scale far beyond anything we’ve yet proved ourselves capable of, the detritus of civilization will be quickly devoured by the maw of deep time…”
• …”If, in the final 7,000 years of their reign, dinosaurs became hyperintelligent, built a civilization, started asteroid mining, and did so for centuries before forgetting to carry the one on an orbital calculation, thereby sending that famous valedictory six-mile space rock hurtling senselessly towards the Earth themselves—it would be virtually impossible to tell. All we do know is that an asteroid did hit, and that the fossils in the millions of years afterward look very different than in the millions of years prior. So that’s what 180 million years of complete dominance buys you in the fossil record…” (Oh, that’s funny – you know it is. Light hearted perspective. Great article.)

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