A Grim Tale

Once there was a tale,

enfolded in darkness,
and very very depressng.

But because those who wrote it
Were famous and loved

You had to read it.

So did I;

I’m no more immune from doomscrolling than you are.

We call it “doomscollling” half-heartedly, like it’s a bad habit, which it is,

but it’s really more like this:

“I will give you stimulation if you give up your mind”

This is nirvana.

This is bliss.

This is a terrible strategy for the Real World, whatever might be real. Your life, your family, your hopes and dreams: they are not inside a little glowing box.

The Glowing Box is both the key to infinity,
And a curse that sucks you into a dystopia which sucks you in, in a manner Huxley never considered.

You can come back.

But it will fight you.

Pull the sword from the stone, and

live in this moment, not in your phone.

The one who pulls this sword from the cellphone
shall be ruler of he Land.

Or so Merlin says; and he’s so much fun to speak to, we don’t wish

To disappoint him.

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