We’re Fucked

We need to repeat these words when

Doom seems so beyond human ken;

It’s crazy to say it,

So we must replay it

Again and again and again. 

Jungle Morality

Changes in our reality

Cause changes in our mentality;

Jungle law is restored

When we cannot afford

The luxury of a morality.

HROEI

Life’s hard, but yet we’re more tested

Now that our energy’s crested:

Increasing crappiness

Decreases Happiness

Returned On Energy Invested.

Predation, Starvation, or Suicide

Our living depends on predation:

Without it, we end in starvation;

If those don’t look good,

The other choice would

Be to end it with self-termination.

H/T: Daniel at Nature Bats Last 

Reducing Cognitive Dissonance

When folks start to mess with your head

By talking about [insert number here] years ahead:

Dissonance goes away

As soon as you say,

“In [insert same number here] years we’ll be dead.” 

Moot

Becoming extinction astute

Means that you’ve got to uproot

Most of your mind

Because doom, you will find,

Makes everything else kind of moot.

Cooked

Global warming is how it begins:

Stuff heats up, and the populace thins;

We'll watch flesh become meat

When we can’t throw off heat

And we’re cooking inside our own skins.

Meaninglessness

Our world’s already a mess,

But as we watch doom coalesce,

We’re nevertheless

Forced to address

Ever more meaninglessness. 

Prepping Lesson

At first, I thought I would prep smarter

By buying booze bottles for barter;

But I was naive:

Now I’ve come to believe

That plan should have been a nonstarter.

I think once the doom dam has burst,

Things will quickly progress to the worst;

Not wanting to lose it,

I’ve started to use it,

And I’m drinking the good stuff first.

Guru

The guru, when asked, “What is good?”

Replied, “Carry water, chop wood!”

When neither remain,

He’ll be forced to abstain,

Unable to do what he should.