365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Friday, October 27, 2017
Strategy
Day 14: Sometimes the opportunity to say "I told you so" isn't as gratifying as it should be. When my husband purchased his first internet-capable computer, I said, "Um...this is Not A Good Idea. Humanity isn't sociologically evolved to the point where they can handle this. This is going to cause a lot more problems than it's going to solve." Bruce has been gone for many years now, so I don't get to say "I told you so," but I was right. As many ways as the compass of our troubles could possibly point, the needle stays steadily on North: internet.
The internet has made possible a new form of warfare, one which undermines the fabric of society and throws it into chaos. There is no need for a nuclear device to destroy thousands of lives, no need for bloodshed to effect conquest of a nation. We have become a weapon in the enemy's hands, a weapon which is being employed against ourselves. We have been engaged by masters in a game which we barely know how to play, and while we falter and fumble and try to make the immediate best of a bad situation, our opponent has each possible move and counter-move strategized decades beyond our power to see, given our limited skills. We have three choices: resign, continue playing in the hopes that our expert opponent will make a mistake leading at best to stalemate or, failing all else, we could just kick over the board.
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