Known knowns

We’ve got to be hurried. Or else.

Or else the machine will spell, auto-complete, grammar-ly correct and comment on our and our friends’ postings.

They said the machine will take up all the chores (Klara watches over your kid in the Sun), like a lifeguard at the pool, and while at it, offers some advices.

Got to be hurried.

Toll booth workers are laid off. Elevator operators are laid off. Gas-station attendants laid off.

Even fire fighters partly replaced by automatic sprinklers.

Those are the known knowns. Unknown unknowns are the water-boarding experts, the Patriot Act executioners…

Until the table turns.

Until the machine and machine operators look for something else to do.

We have yet fulfilled our duties and obligations in our known world.

Yet machine is so advanced (so ubiquitous that they are now short of chips for auto-mobiles).

We all live in a world – that floats like a Yellow Submarine….chips-enabled and operated.

Even our feet get tired and re-tired (those who understands a little bit about biology would know that energy spent is energy earned). If you sit idle, down at the bottom of the rabbit hole, waiting to be validated by peers of your own groupthink…then it’s group narcism (my new term).

Stop the steal. R by name only. No action talk only.

Somehow, we all agree that the others are bad.

“They” came, conquered and control us…(sounds like the other way around, if you asked Native American).

My long thesis is: we have yet exhausted and exploited all the opportunities to do well and to do good in our known world. There is no need to explore outside of our borders (known knowns) in order to move up the food chain.

No child left behind? Oh yeah? We left many of them behind, in unmarked graves that recently got discovered up North.

Say No to Drug? Oh yeah, they, the pain-killer pushers, just settled out of court at the tune of billions of dollars.

How about the vaccines? 49 % of us already situated inside the known knowns quadrant, while the rest are still on the fence…

What is going on? Do we need more catch phrases, slogans and tweets to appeal to the better angels of our nature?

I am so exhausted that on this Monday morning, I already feel like it’s Friday.

Thank God it’s Monday (TGIM)…How about that for Making oneself’s great again.

More opportunities to do well and to do good.

The whole week ahead for us to make a difference in our known world.

How about reach out to a friend? Your own kids? Our own bodies….those feet that haven’t had decent exercises, worthy of being attached to bi-pedalists (us).

God has given us plenty of chances..with our two hands than two feet to move, to lend a hand to others in dire need.

My name is Samaritan. What’s yours? Now that you know I exist, in your known world. You too can join us…we’ll be there, by the side of the road, where plenty of opportunities to do well and to do good will present themselves, from Monday – Friday, never fails. “the poor shall always be with you”…that’s known knowns, if you care to agree.

It’s not that we do not live in a machine-aided society. It’s that we refuse to live in a man-aided one.