NVN Tuesday: BYE, BYE, HOMO SAPIENS… WE HARDLY KNEW YA
by George Salamon
“‘All the cemeteries are full': Palestinians buried in a mass grave in Gaza.” —Reuters, November 22, 2023
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"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." —John Donne, Meditation 17, 1623
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On the pile of rubble the wailing of a mother means nothing. On the broken street the raised fist of a father, nothing. The weeping of entire populations on both sides, nothing. The killing of the air, the end of our oceans, nothing In times of exhaustion and nihilism, values have vanished and we are turning into machines, surviving to function, not to live.
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George Salamon thinks the lords of Silicon Valley have, million clicks after millions of more clicks, succeeded into turning most of our minds and hearts into file clerks and bean counters.