civilization collapse

Avis car rental company Wizard booking software introduced in 1972 IBM Mainframe SNA Every month on a Saturday, the entire system goes down Everywhere From 12am to 6am all orders are entered by hand while the system is offline for maintenance Of course, staff call in sick

Live forever Human City Civilization Finding perfect equilibrium for eternal city breaks the Plan Cities ARE designed to fall Civilizations ARE destined to fail as is everything else according the law of declining marginal returns to want things otherwise is infantile and monstrous

It takes me 44 years to wake up I discover I am on train That went over a cliff 20 years ago And will crash in another 20 years I have barely Learned to speak To speak I tell a story A story about executioners They hunt criminals and cut off their heads They use magic to get the head to talk after decapitation to give them peace When I was born Global warming had been set in motion The anthropocene already begun And the tools and infrastructure to know