The World A.D.

This is something I wrote after some deep contemplation

The World A.D.

Humans have strongly under estimated their ability to comprehend their own reality. It was a common misconception, back in the day, that the human eye could see a direct representation of external reality.

The truth or rather the fact is that we’ve been seeing things upside down all along. Our eyes and our mind translate the light we see, thus creating our visual world: Earth, the precious rarity that humanity has failed to care for.

There was a time where the trees on the land grew tall; the skies reflected the stars that could be seen and everything in between. The reality of earth that could be viewed by a set of eyes has been eradicated by humanity’s inability to step down from their own inevitable death.

I long to understand why humans have made the planet a zone of disaster. It wasn’t always like this. There used to be more to life than the poisonous rivers of the Amazonian rainforests.

The rivers of the Amazon Rainforests used to hold such brilliant wildlife that humanity has crushed under their carbon footprint of destruction. From the pink dolphins to the electric eels, there will be forever no more of those beautiful creatures.

Belugas, Orcas, and Hunchback whales once roamed the seas that are now thickened with plastics and waste. We’ve choked the turtles to extinction by the mass production of straws for the novelty of slurping an ice cold beverage. We’ve fished out most of the once abundant seas just to fill the markets with fish. Corporate businesses just wanted to bank on the fishes of the sea and four-legged animals of the land, turning them into meat factories.

The food chain industries were a cover for killing and mistreating millions of innocent animals. If we actually understood our own pain that we sense through our bodies we could conceive the pain of the animals that were churned into products for human consumption.

We’ve obligated ourselves to clean up our act of killing not only for ourselves but for every living thing that remains around us.

The corporate businesses of the world incorporated the killing of both animals and human. They’ve banked off many lives from their criminal psychopathic lies they’ve fed to the world.

They’ve polluted the air with the massively produced cars and factories that destroyed a protective ozone layer of the earth. The scientists told humanity of the depletion of the ozone layers, warning of us of a fate that we knitted ourselves. Our ignorance of the climate change resulted in a heat wave that destroyed most of Antarctica, ending the march of the penguins, and drowning the polar bears as they swim to exhaustion.

The industries deceived the now dead middle-class. They banked on the needs of others to play a game of monopoly, to pollute the waters with waste only to result in a dying, now nearly dead planet.

The earth was just a board game to the leaders of the world and now that most life has been killed off. The leaders can no longer bank off of innocent animals or tool with the minds of the working man.
The year is 3000, the end of the world.

Humanity’s efforts to reconnect with nature have failed. We were too busy trying to be social with each other without ever speaking face to face. Technology has ruined us and in the end, it wasn’t artificial intelligence that destroyed us, we destroyed ourselves. We’ve also destroyed everything around us, except for what remains beneath me.

I sail across the world with old blue, my black Labrador Retriever, looking for signs of life. I am uncertain of humanity’s status and I think I may be alone in the world-except for blue, I have him.

Earth used to be full of wonder. My parents, when they were alive would tell me stories passed down from generations before the heat wave melted most of the ice caps. It has been several generations of the aftermath, three generations to be exact. I am a third generation youngster in a world after its death.

Every life that remains on earth now dwindles in the deep seas that surround me as I scavenge for my own survival.
The boat rocks beneath my feet, treading water from seas.

I sail over a city that once used to be called New York but now looks like an underwater ruin. This place must be what the ancient civilizations were referring to when they spoke of Atlantis, a place where humans once roamed as they ignored earth, a planet that needed to be nurtured.

Instead of taking notice to our destructive behavior patterns, we celebrated our own victories and triumphs over selfish pride and prejudice.

We cheered and rejoiced when we got our way. We were given opportunities to see the ongoing movement towards the end but still, we rejoiced. Our ignorance jubilated and showed in our myopic destruction of not only ourselves but the whole planet.

My thoughts linger with the doubtful experiences of humankind. We set ourselves up to fail, but we’ve failed to see what was most valuable and treasured.

We had plenty of time to fix our actions but have been misled by generations of lack. Abundance was here all along but we became greedy. The greed was created by a delusion given to us by our leaders, the elites. They lied to us; they sold us dreams of opportunity by marketing false products. They paved a road to hell on earth for all of us.

Our mistakes had driven us into overpopulation which resulted in massive climate change. Depopulation due to harsh conditions unfolded, the dreams of humankind were collected by death’s toll.

It’s ironic knowing that we feared such a thing as death as it happens to all of us, but what didn’t have to happen was the destruction we caused.
We lost connection to the nature of our own reality which happened to be the plants, the forests, and the wildlife that we took for granted. We also lost connection with each other as we spent our last days using the technology that destroyed our ability to think with our own minds.

We flipped the world upside down ridding it of all its resources. We were children pickpocketing the earth that never said no to our demands. We have no excuse to have gone as far as we did.

There will be no more apologies or court rulings for our crimes against planet earth. We thought ourselves to be the smart species of the planet but we have proved ourselves wrong with our actions.

The banter of humans has now faded out like a shooting star in the night’s sky. The animal’s calls in the wilderness have died out like most of the planet. There will be no more bickering or late night partying as humanity has come to a dead end.

The buildings below the boat’s bilge used to be bright with city lights and the busy working class of America. The homes that now pass beneath the dense waters used to have barking dogs, like old blue, and they greet the local mailman. But now all the homes where families used to have dinners together are sunken ships at the bottom of a sea.

Life on earth wasn’t bad at the beginning of the end but as time went on, humanity failed to recognize the global disasters that made the lively city a dead sea of underwater buildings.

We were the cause of the sixth extinction. We’re the ones who destroyed the planet earth. We’re the ones who thought ourselves to be righteous humans by religion and delusions of the mind. The truth is we were wrong to think we were any better than another animal life. Humanity no longer has to struggle to understand this because the state of living is as worse as it can possibly be.

I make my way inland on a boat that is my home. I look for a way to survive just as my ancestors had before we built an empire. We should have known that an empire always falls, just as it did for the Romans and all the ancient civilizations that built a solid structure with feeble understanding. We should have learned that all empires that rise must fall.

The only reason our empire, our world, has fallen is that we disconnected with nature. We’ve blinded ourselves to the very reason we exist, the nature that once surrounded the world. We’ve dismissed our own discoveries of the first fungi that appeared on earth. The fungi learned to adapt to nature and we learned to run away from it.

I write this knowing that the only way to reconnect with nature is by realizing we were never right to take what we have from the planet. I connect only to what was lost by witnessing and bearing the harsh conditions of life after the death of planet earth.

I make my way inland knowing I might never find any signs of life because all that ever was and had been was destroyed by us. Our state of fear and foreshortened sight has reflected in the world that used to be abundant earth but is now the world after death.