Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "post-apocalyptic"

Technology will take us far, far
and farther, until it dumps us
back where we came from, in the
caves, but of concrete ruins.

We will once again fight with
spears and axes, made of broken
bits of chips and circuit boards.
Silicon, lithium, gold, all will
be worthless, apes will barter
again with sheep and boars.

Yesterday’s world was obsessed with swords,
today’s world is obsessed with guns,
tomorrow’s world will be obsessed with AI,
and it always ends up with death and destruction.

Day after tomorrow it’ll be business as usual,
savage world will be back obsessing with fire,
then again with swords, then guns, and so on,
till the sky pours ashes and seas boil over.

What’s so advanced in being the master of war,
we’re advanced when we rise master of peace!

Post-apocalyptic world will
never unfold like in the movies,
the post-apocalyptic world already
exists, may be not for you, as you’re
born on the lucky side of privilege –

but that world of drought, flood, famine,
plague and persecution already exists –
the post-apocalyptic world is now,
ten steps from the door of the privileged.

Privilege defines whether
it’s a post-apocalyptic world –
step outside the castle,
and apocalypse is everywhere.

Or you just Netflix and chill,
while human communities crumble!
Apes binge-watch the occupation,
deportation and genocide,
aloof from their smart-castle.