LJIdol 3 Strikes - Week 11 - “Surgery often looks like murder if you judge it halfway through”

[hwango]

Everything is terrible.

The merciless sun is hotter every year, and catastrophic weather has become commonplace.

Neighbor constantly turns upon neighbor, and violence is everywhere.

Things just can't go on like this.

Then - what new horror is this? Letters of fire in the sky?

"System update in progress. Installing patch ECrE_ME5.0." Below these words, a river of light swiftly flows from one point in the sky towards another.

That doesn't sound so bad. Maybe it's an omen of hope? I turn to the velociraptor next to me and we share a cautious, optimistic smile.

Then the progress bar in the sky reaches the end, and the meteors start to fall.

Comments

[drippedonpaper]

I have felt the same way. I wake up to check the news to see "what fresh hell" we will face today.

The revealing of a velociraptor at the end of your entry surprised me (in a good way. :)

All I can think that, at some point, like many civilizations of the past, soon it will be too much, too far. The people will rise up. It's not the way I want things to go. I would prefer safe and peaceful change.

But I wonder...

Hugs to you. You are not alone in wanting change in our world..

[hwango]

Thanks - I figured if I couldn't manage my usual sort of thing this week, then at the very least I could offer the twist that the depicted events are actually happening at the end of the Cretaceous period.

I am also hoping that we can correct the course of our society without meteors. I'm not super optimistic about it right now, but it would be nice.