Sunday, May 12, 2024

Modernity and gears of hubris in motion

Hidden events, hidden secrets, hidden knowledge exist
Each has its own history of being, throughout existence
Whether from lost history, catastrophes that erase evidence
Or from ideas, religions, philosophies eradicated by others
There are great caches of information lost to the present day
Each lost leaving nothing behind to tell modernity about it
We flounder in the present amongst a current thought climate
That through social media we're made geniuses with a click
So we think, but it is wrong, it'll lead us astray, a click away
We may not realize it, but the truth is self evident, and real
But instead of searching, delving, we assume we know it
It is comforting to think, the internet will make us smart
But one needs machine parts for it to actually function
Our human brain has been breaking apart for decades
And we choose to believe we know every single thing
The absence of thought, lack of learning, deafening
But hubris, a belief in modernity is a solution
That will leave us in stasis, making war
Dying of plague and famine, apathy
And genocides unending

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection —
and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is
not everything that should be said.” Edgar Allan Poe