Inktober2023

With a hundred long and sensitive hair on every leg, the tiger wandering spider can tune in to the airflow around its body.

Your phone buzzing is a shallow echo of a past with a rich vibratory landscape sacrificed in the name of conquest.

Billionaires talk boldly about colonising Mars to distract from the fact that they have nothing to offer to solve today's problems. Useless in challenges that requires teamwork above all else, they begin to plan their escape to their gilded bunkers - or off Earth altogether.

Instead of a rational project directed toward the future, reactionists offer the people 'emotional highs' and sloganeering based in vague and unsupported nostalgias.

In a world that is radically uncertain, choosing the option which will give us good-enough results under the widest range of possible futures is more resilient.

If it only takes a warm cup to make a warm heart, why do we still attribute all authority to some mysterious free will?