WEBcome to the Spider Asylum
That ever-tightening
Invisible digital filament
Shrink-wrapping the entire earth
Cocooning its prey python-like
Slowly subtly suffocatingly
Humanity succumbs eagerly
In ‘real time’
Their ‘real life’ squeezed out
Leaving behind dried-out husks
Easily digestible and then excreted
From God-given dust into dung
A wireless straight jacket
This thing that now defines and confines
This necessary indispensable thing
That is now in humanity’s service
Or is it vice versa?
This global thing called the IoT
The Internet-of-Things
Its cob-webby aggregators
Collecting and interconnecting
All the life experiences
Of all sentient beings on earth
Making all ‘lives’ available
To everyone anytime anywhere
With just a click of the ‘mouse’
After which ol’ Google-eyes roll and roam
Zooming at the speed of light
Through all digital connections
From pole to pole and longi-latitude
Finding ‘the answer’ to every query
For surely some ‘life’ has most indeed
Been there and done that
And has ‘shared’ or perhaps
Simply had their privacy stolen
Their secret actions spied upon
Their innermost words and
Some believe:
Their very thoughts
Eves-dropped upon
In order that all those
Impetuously ‘searching’
All…ALL shall find a connecting node
Within the coming IoM
The Internet-of-Minds
Kind of a Global Id
This ballooning IoT will find its way into
The entire Internet-of-Minds:
All that encompasses that vast collective of human actions
Hopes dreams ideas talents comments ‘likes’ ‘dislikes’
All our experienced actions/reactions/infractions
From pillar to post up sideways or down
That is
In a few ten dollar words:
Simply a wild schizophrenic syndrome
This Global Id in the IoT
Are we merely IDIOTs!
All men’s minds inevitably deranged
And re-arranged in a virtual ir-reality
As now we become global ‘Idiots’
All worldwide ‘knowing’ is supposedly
Accessible
But worldwide sanity….
Impossible
By Jahgirl
06/23/2017
* ‘Id’, noun, in Psychoanalysis:1. The part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.