Friday, August 13, 2021

Let us atheist pray

Dear void which are not in heaven: I heard recently that the situation with respect to global warming is even worse than feared, as our daily experience with the news and weather-- and even sports and traffic-- confirm.  I am led to understand it's not just bad, it is very likely given the current trajectory of both our political climate and our actual one that it is very quickly going to get much worse.  We're having a hard enough time with the actual covid threat in front of our face-- how can anyone expect us to deal, o void, with this existential one that we have long known was coming but have done nothing about?  It seems as though a predicament of such immensity would call for some cooperation amongst us in recognition of our shared circumstances and stakes in the outcome, and yet even the fragments we have broken down into are further fragmenting by the day.  What to do, o void which are not?

I atheist pray that we collectively come to our senses, get on the stick, get on the ball, hop to it before say, fall.  For starters, could we not get a bit more camaraderie on the left?  Could we have much less virtue policing and purity tests and cancellation and infighting and Robespierre moves and a bit more recognition of the benefit of alliance, growth and momentum where it's always needed, on the left where trouble of the most urgent kind always originates?

As long as I'm shouting into the darkness, I might as well pray for wisdom for our elected leaders.  And not political wisdom, but actual experiential wisdom that could be put to service in coordinating a response to our present predicament in such a way as not to favor one group over another but which will bring about an era of sustainable copaceticism far into the future.  May whatever foundation of common interest be strengthened within them and may it be joined by a far-reaching imagination about what is possible that is also actually good-- universal healthcare and an alternative to soulless, corrosive, dead-end capitalism, for instance.

And please may the laws of physics change in some benign way that will nullify privatized, commercialized space technology.

Judgment Day and karma don't make logical sense to me, void.  If their purpose is to incentivize justness in this realm, would it not advantage them to be meted in this realm?   Justice delayed is justice denied.  As much as the science which gives credence to thee, the lameness of two such famous schemes as these also does service to the wisdom of belief on you instead, o void.  Therefore, I atheist pray that the class of people responsible for the impending doom soon begin to feel consequences for their actions and inactions and for the rigid stratifications that they maintain through economic stinginess, weakening them apparently enough that their class can be approached and dismantled, creating the opening for an epoch of transnational communal effort toward a restoration of the planet for all of its creatures.

Finally I ask for health and well-being for my loved ones and if you can spare another favor for myself, an end to my writer's block.  And also a pet koala.

Hear me now, o void (if indeed thou couldst be imagined to have ears with which to hear me).  Thou art great, and I am nothing.  But I implore you: Please do everything in your non-existent power to get it together. Wouldst thou please, void?  (Hello?)

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