Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Classical psychoanalysis

“...When the threat to our personal well-being becomes sufficiently strong, however, the id (being primal and unconscious) tends to win out.....Can the rational processes of the ego and the inhibitory influence of the superego combine to defeat the self-centered desires of the id...?”
   -- The Neuropsychology of Climate Change
           http://www.paulchefurka.ca/COP15.html

Superego, ego, and id
Are places where secrets are hid;
But, to cut to the chase,
I think in this case,
We’ve really fucked up—yup, we did.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Game Theory for Doomers

What’s doom, in this math that’s so eerie?
A short cut for those getting weary:
We need not rehash
Johnny von Neumann and Nash,
It’s game over—and there’s your game theory. 

Thursday, December 13, 2012

The Joy of Doomer Determinism

The causes to which we’re in thrall
Have effects on the cosmos—but small;
Through karma and fate
We became what we ate,
So we didn’t fuck up after all.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Denial and the Consensus Trance

“Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
...
"Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five." 
— George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four
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Part of warming denial’s drive
Is consensus trance where you contrive
To rewire your brain
From the kind of insane
Which sees four fingers instead of five. 

Friday, December 7, 2012

Near Term Extinction

I just learned about NTE—
It’s the end for both you and for me;
I’d discuss what I know,
But I really must go,
‘Cause my pants are now all soaked with pee.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Nothing Matters Anymore

It’s easier now to ignore
Deniers than ever before:
Even our futile chatter
In the end, doesn’t matter;
In the end, nothing matters anymore. 

Saturday, December 1, 2012

The Word’s Getting Out

The word’s getting out on doom’s plan,
And soon there’s no more kick the can,
Ending history’s span
Soon after it began:
TS is now hitting TF.

E.g.,: