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Never before has humanity faced such a prospect of destruction,As if unsure whether tomorrow will bring the sun or a mushroom cloud.Never before has humanity been so torn apart by an information war,As if internet users are more ruthless than hawkish politicians.Never before has humanity merged so closely with machines,As if big data dictates when and what professions will be finished.Never before has humanity been so ready to gamble everything,As if, post-Trump revolution, everyone follows Musk to Mars…This is Humanity 2.0.
Look at what they’re busy with please—
Debating the parallels between now and the eve of World War II,
Calculating the yield of new nukes, hundreds of times Hiroshima’s.
Assessing the death rate of Pandemic 2, far surpassing COVID,
Analyzing the limits of humanity’s tolerance under AI enslavement,
Rushing to design survival plans for a frenzied climate,
And building Starlink as a Noah’s Ark to navigate space.
Clearly, they’re preparing for tomorrow like someone writing a will…
For tomorrow, the Sword of Damocles is poised ready to end all history!
* Chengde is a philosopher-poet and the author of Five Themes of Today – philosophical poems (Open Gate Press, London, 2001)
