Wednesday, February 29, 2012

2012

The end, as we know, is now near,
And each day life gets more austere;
When doom's truly severe,
We'll all disappear—
It’s looking to be a big year.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Realistic Predictions

Soothsaying what’s realistic
Is not consequently sadistic;
Predict with distinction:
Include mass extinction,
And don’t try to be optimistic. 

Monday, February 27, 2012

The Daily News

News which once seemed so essential
Is now mostly inconsequential;
At best, it’s tangential:
What’s influential
Is doom which might seem exponential.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

“There’s No Tomorrow”

Watch the short video “There’s No Tomorrow” at:

This movie just made its debut
To help folks who’re new get a clue;
It could change their view,
But will it break through?
Or be seen by only a few?

It’s likely the horde will be floored
Once this news gets stored in their gourd;
History will record
If it does get explored,
Or ends up just being ignored.

It might merely preach to the choir,
While the messenger's branded a liar;
But it's there to acquire
For those who desire
To grasp this dire scheme entire.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Out of Gas

From  http://dieoff.org/page125.htm  :
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What do you think it will mean
To run out of gasoline?
With no change in routine,
We’ll soon reconvene
Right back at Olduvai ravine.

The steady increase in gas prices
Is soon going to lead to a crisis;
It will open some eyes
When, to our surprise,
We’re unable to run our devices.

While often it’s quite rightly panned,
Economics explains what’s at hand;
We can all understand
Collapse that’s unplanned:
It’s simple supply and demand.

Some people try to proclaim
It’s all due to some scapegoat they frame,
But it’s how we've evolved
And our problem’s not solved
By finding someone to blame.

Soon we won’t have any gas
For getting to work or to class,
And without food we’ll see
That there won’t even be
Any gas passing out of our ass. 

Friday, February 24, 2012

We’re All Going to Go When We Go


We’re all going to go when we go,
The highborn as well as the low;
We will wind up our show
In collapse fast or slow,
With nobody left to say “D’oh!”

Two things are sure, as we know:
Nuke plants will blow and we’ll glow;
Then to add to our woe,
We’ll soon say hello
To heat in which most life won’t grow.

When supplies slide off the plateau,
Then everyone else is a foe;
So go with the flow,
And enjoy status quo—
We’re all going to go when we go.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Need to Come Up with a New Idea?

If asked for a new thought or style
At school, work, or where you beguile,
Try this on for size:
Soon everyone dies;
That oughta hold ‘em awhile.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Nothing New under the Sun

Each species gets one time to run,
To be born and to be undone;
There’s a season to build,
And one where they get killed—
There’s nothing new under the sun.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Ode to the Dixie Chicks

“The Truth...from a band that got excoriated for telling the truth”
http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/02/lies-we-tell-ourselves-part-1-gop-is.html

There was a great band called the Chicks
Which was met by some damned dirty tricks;
From a few words they said,
They were suddenly dead,
Destroyed by some hate-driven dicks.

Take heed, little cowpoke, and hear
Of the end of the Chicks’ career;
They sure knew how to play,
And they still make their way,
Right into my welcoming ear.

It’s sad that the world’s really so,
That we lost maybe Dixie’s best show
Since New Orleans blew
Hot jazz which was new
A full hundred long years ago.

Perhaps it's the best thing to do,
To speak your view, honest and true;
But watch out, my young pup,
Better STFU,
Or the same thing might happen to you.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Kicking the Can Down the Road

The world’s debts somehow overflowed,
And now no one can pay what is owed;
Plus, business has slowed
Because oil has plateaued—
So we’re kicking the can down the road.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

A People’s History of the World

Humans, to live, must contend
For resources on which they depend;
But animals tend
To overextend
There’s no more to append. The End.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

“Self-Inflicted” Decline?

http://www.alternet.org/world/154133/noam_chomsky%3A_america%27s_decline_is_real_--_and_increasingly_self-inflicted/?page=entire


We won’t find a way for evasion
Of our mass extinction occasion;
Since it’s not going to matter,
Don’t sweat complex patter
Based on political persuasion.

Homo sapiens psychology,
Which some may label pathology,
Might now seem inept
But has not changed except
It uses advanced technology.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Dissatisfaction with Resource Depletion

As the fan gets hit with excretion,
The struggle for asset accretion
Makes dissatisfactions
With other folks’ actions
A feature of resource depletion.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Our Animal Nature

The reason we’ll soon be deceased
Is we’re not that much different from yeast:
Born to compete,
We’ll become obsolete—
It’s the nature of every beast.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Oil Cutoff


Cutting off oil was a key
To start WWII’s killing spree;
While there’s no guarantee,
We might get to see
If it’s going to start WWIII.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Strange but True

A story that’s strange but true
Describes what some people do:
Despite global warming,
The plan they are forming
Tells them they’ll somehow get through.

In fantasy, we can transcend
Physics laws, upon which we depend,
And in spite of our trend
To overextend
We never thought all this could end.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Bubble Trouble

The methane, bubble by bubble,
Will heat what remains of the rubble;
It’s not what we planned—
On the other hand,
At least it’s the end of the trouble.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Meditation on the Decline and Fall of Quality in Goods and Services

Cross-posted from:

At first, it’s hard to admit,
But collapse is not going to quit;
Every day, I submit
Stuff becomes more unfit:
Everything’s turning to shit.

Here’s what makes me berserk
(Which you may think’s only a quirk):
Things keep getting worse,
So I swear and I curse;
I hate it when shit doesn’t work.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Terminator

T-100, to T-1000

I’m not up for domestication,
But how about cohabitation?
You can see levitation
And augmentation
And why "I need a vacation!"

I arrived with no clothes to unpack,
But still, I’m quite good in the sack;
You’ve got what I lack:
A very nice rack,
And after I’ve come—I'll be back!


Sarah Connor

You think something’s wrong with my head,
But doom is becoming widespread;
You think that you’re wise,
But everyone dies;
Everyone’s already dead.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Three Days of the Condor

"What do you think the people will want us to do then?....Ask them when they’re running out. When it’s cold at home and the engines stop and people who aren’t used to hunger...go hungry! They won’t want us to ask...They’ll want us to GET it for them.”

What will you want them to do
When gas lines form into a queue,
And you’ve come to conclude
That you’ll die without food:
Will you want them to get it for you?

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Psychological Research

If researchers only switched gears,
They could become doom pioneers;
Instead they do what
They like to do but
Won’t matter in just a few years.

 
...“psychological” modeling....

They could use areas where they are strong,
And find places where we went wrong;
With their understanding,
Soften the landing,
Maybe fix why we can’t get along.

 
“...the neurology of the brain....”

All of us soon will be leaving
Gains we’ve worked so hard in achieving;
With science’s dearth,
The sun circling the earth
Is what we’ll be back to believing.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

End of Empire News


When I want catch up on the news,
pammie’s blog is the one that I choose;
It’s there I peruse
Doom’s cutting edge views
While we’re rowed on our Styx river cruise.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Access to Medical Care

The collapse proceeds, and life gets tougher every day; for example:



Medical care is in flux,
And access today really sucks;
In times of slim pickens,
Doctors took chickens,
But now it’s about the big bucks.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Doomer Therapy, Kubler-Ross Style

“...it occurred to me that, in our grief over the impending death of Business As Usual, we have sidestepped moving on from bargaining  to acceptance by taking a turn back toward bargaining’s ancient stepsister, the sacrificing of lambs...to whatever gods we feel need appeasing so that BAU might live....”



Some people restrain grief progression
Using bargaining-based obsession;
It’s a kind of digression
To hold back succession
To the subsequent stage, depression.

==

For a framework to deal with our loss,
The five stages of grief are my boss;
They’re not lots of fun,
But they get the job done,
And that’s why I like Kubler-Ross.

K-R’s a good system for basing
A way to serenity chasing;
It helps people plan
For when shit hits the fan,
And prepare for what they’ll soon be facing.

Folks get a good introduction
From her theory’s simple construction;
Using just a rough sketch,
It helps their minds stretch
Enough for doom basic instruction.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Everything’s Falling Apart

 

When it’s hard to keep staying alive,
And most life can barely survive,
Computers won’t work,
But folks won’t go berserk
Over how much is five times five.

Hopes for the future have faded—
Poor quality now has pervaded;
It happens each day
And in every way:
Everything’s being degraded.

Everything’s falling apart
(You could plot the trend on a chart);
Doom living’s an art:
Since we cannot restart,
You get used to it fast if you’re smart.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Groundhog Day

He tells us what weather’s in store,
But soon he’ll have free time galore:
His job’s just a perk,
And he’ll be out of work
When winters don’t come anymore.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

When the Grid Goes Down

"...Officials have been taking extra care to reassure the public that there’s no danger, since after Japan, the idea of radiation leaking from a nuclear plant tends to set people on edge.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/san-onofre-nuclear-plant-closed-after-radiation-leak/


Not very far down the road,
We’re going to reap what we’ve sowed:
The world will go cuckoo
When everything’s Fuku
And nuclear plants all explode.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Fail-Safe

The Fighter Pilots

—That order’s a death decree!
—This is the way it must be.
—On the screen there’s no doubt:
Now they’re all flaming out.
—They’ve gone down into the sea.


Goodbye, My Friend

—I liked London. One could transcend
The war; on long walks, time I’d spend
Amid historic array...
—It is a hard day.
—Good-bye, my friend. —Good-bye, my friend.


Helen Grady

Jack...this is Helen...hello?
There's no war! Don’t let the bombs go!
I've never lied to you...
You know that is true...
Jack...please answer me....No!


The Ambassador

—When the hydrogen bombs ignite,
A shriek will report your plight;
As they drop to the ground...
—Explosions now sound!
The sky is lit up very bright....


The Matador

We knew what this mission might be.
Only I touch the bomb control key,
And I fly the plane;
From these acts you refrain—
The dream! The matador! Me!