Plague-less. Vaccinated. Infrastructured.
Our battles are academic, philosophical, elementary fights of faith and status. We fend off first world diseases born of fat and fury. We sue over lead poisoning and asbestos. We immunize. We eat canned goods when we're poor. We worry about stocks and bonds and platforms and mergers and basis points on glowing screens. We worry about snow delays and traffic jams. Who ARE we?
The plague broke out in Algeria in 2003. They have the 8th largest reserve of natural gas in the world. They're playing ahead and looking back at the same time; tripping all over their pubescence. What will it take to drag them out of yesterday?
Connections? Physical, irreversible connections? It's a planet, not a country. It's a humanity, not a society. The plague will get all the way over here from all the way back there if we ignore it for long enough. We're connected by a million particles of rock and water and air. But we're not.
So what does it take to grab boot straps and tug hard enough to bridge a time gap? Worth? Synergy of values? A wiki-page?
Something else to worry about. The accuracy of wiki pages. *sigh. It sure is comfortable in climate controlled offices. Here. In the future.
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