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Dec 4
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Have a Happy Holiday Season, and don’t forget the Class Struggle!
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BETTER DAYS – AND MORE STRUGGLE – ARE COMING!
The New Year
Did something just happen?
I felt a flux, a shift in space-time.
A far off tinkle of bells
or gears grinding or
the core of the earth vibrating.
It seemed to me that things
hit bottom and now they're rising.
What things?
Well everything.
Our future, etc.
Was it something the Aliens did?
Or was it the rumble of the coming
of the Singularity?
Perhaps The Age of Aquarius
has finally arrived, with a thud.
Maybe it was just me
working through some psych thing.
But it seemed like it was "out there"
something turning, turning as the bottom
of the year passed
and the days - and our chances -
grow longer.
In a few years someone will remark:
Don't you think everyone is nicer lately?
You don't hear that doomsday talk
and you don't hear those homeless haters.
We are more considerate of each other
and the Earth.
Don't you think?
And in a hundred years
they'll say, how strange people used to be.
Must have been all that stress.
–Jim Smith