Can'T Fool Mother Nature
DOUBLETHINK
Can’t Fool Mother Nature
1: THIS LIFE
Newspeak, Doublethink,
and other similar words
only bedevil us.
When trying to figure out what was said,
George Orwell In his novel, “1984,”
left us clues to solve such improper speech.
For, we live with words,
be they constantly updated to satisfy the altered meanings
or newly purloined from a parallel universe.
Some words give voice in the social/political arena.
Others may have been crafted by lonely jailbirds
with lots of time on their hands.
Lewis Carroll’s “Alice In Wonderland”
had one character, the march hare,
complain about Alice’s
not saying what she meant.
For sure, we are living in a totally made-up world.
One and all slavishly adopt the chic creations
of newfound technology
that requires newly created words.
This being done without regard to
how the technology poisons,
and pollutes the environment,
leaving others to clean up the messy plastic,
scattered far and wide.
2: OUR NEXT LIFE
But, hope is still with us.
Ever-changing language can turn trashy phrases
into treasures near and dear.
After all, collectors love to restore gas-guzzling,
environmentally-destroying vehicles of antique vintage.
So, it may not be all that bad for our next life.
Mother Nature is developing new and evolved bacteria
to consume all those plastics,
left discarded in landfills and ocean dumping grounds.
Strange!
There are no ever-lasting plastics found in archeology sites.
Maybe plastic-eating bacteria will appear
to evolve ways to clear the air.
Then, Humans can continue in their efforts
to develop new and entertaining venues of self-gratification.
3: HERE AND NOW
Some have said that history repeats itself.
Further, civilizations of humans have come and gone.
Many have been wiped off the face of the Earth
leaving relics and artifacts in diverse locations.
What of new life forms appearing to clean from the trash heap
that which was Left behind by the capitalistic but inventive new-think.
Will we then have to abandon Earth?
Do we take colonizing spacecraft
to newly discovered pristine worlds?
How about, we terraform Mars?
Or, will Mother Earth continuously re-evolve humankind’s messes
in the here and now.
Or, will we give rise to new hope
for a brand-spanking-new Earth?
Perhaps Mother Nature will terraform Earth.
Copyright © James Ray Morris | Year Posted 2021
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