Born inside a paradise full of animals and fruit
The Humans started building shelves,
And then walls around the shelves.
They installed cash registers at the front entrance
and started putting price tags on everything.
Nothing was free anymore.
The Earth became a huge supermarket
As everything was stolen and brought inside so it can be sold.
Even humans themselves became trapped inside
Because if you wanted to eat you had to earn credit
By becoming a slave inside the supermarket.
Eventually nothing remained outside the supermarket
There was nothing left to bring inside
As Earth was destroyed.
And the supermarket fulfilled its goal,
Which was to sell Earth.
The End.
Out Now – my latest novel A New Earth – The Apocalypse Locus
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Wow. Strong, perfect, powerful statement. This is a great wake-up-call. Thanks. 👍
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Yep, and the only improvements seen were the new digital cash registers that do the Cashiers thinking for them. No more do they have to stress out about making correct change. Another human thinking process lost, turned over to AI. Cheers George, Karl G.
Excellent analogy.
You just might enjoy this poem by the late Australian poet/environmentalist/feminist Judith Wright, who wrote about things like this too, last century.
https://pickmeuppoetry.org/eve-to-her-daughters-by-judith-wright/
She has many fine, inspirational poems and isn’t widely known outside Australia. Worth digging if you need some sustenance.
Thanks very much Sue
Or, we could have learned and taught our children to propagate the trees and bushes and spread them everywhere, recreating Eden. We missed our chance, but we can’t but try.
a lovely thought