"They (the inexorable Anaconda) didn't give a shit about us." This dawned on me when seeing this image as an adult, decades after I'd recorded it as a child.
Christmas '61: My sister got a Chatty Cathy doll. I got a Kodak
Brownie camera. We were grateful and oblivious to the facts of life in
a sacrifice zone.
A sacrifice zone is generally defined as a geographic area that has been permanently impaired by environmental
damage or economic disinvestment. Earth as a whole is now racing
toward that end with a exclusive core of techno-libertarian tyrants in the
driver(less) seat.
So, today when I hear a litany of targeted marketing phrases like "AI (Artificial Intelligence) will Cure Cancer", I know that may be true for a few, but not for the many. We will be devoured by economic cancer, social cancer, psychological cancer, and yes, even physical cancer, in the process. Because underlining the marketing hype is the fact that - They don't give a shit about us.