Do You Hotchpotch?
Truth appears in strange places these days, cloaked in ego speak and bias jargon, not to mention sheer folly.
I went to Claude, to Grok, to Anthropic, to DeepSeek, to government sources, to the latest news. None of it made much sense to me.
So I made up some words.. No more illogical than any other verbal hotchpotch online:
"Jjfhdu eyfbndkf jfh qowj hdjrk wwnfksj fjfjfhd ppfkmdeu qksjjd ffn uyebdj y dj hfncmsk hfndjmekdmfn jjfd nndh kkgkgkfj dldoe.fl jdjdhsje nfhdyewjm kkd snhe jjdheid jdjdjend jdjdhdsudn fhsgqllsoqs je osmjsdkf qjn dkdfj dkfj djshwek fjfjss qpmr jfghdjfnfu jkfjndu fhdh jf hddye jkfkkfjhdue". (1)
If you can figure these out, you are better than I, even though I wrote them. They are a new language, formed from a pre-verbal territory of the unconscious, unembellished by AI.
I could delete them, but they are as valid as any other combination of letters. And they hide a story needing to unfold. As Maya Angelou reminded us, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." (2)
Out of the formless void, Nature's paintbrush yielded us. Something from nothing. Beings being, differentiated from infinite space by boundaries of skin and bone, hair and nails. Now we in turn are violating the spaces of gravity. Masters of intelligence that we are, we invade Nature's geography and call it cyberspace. Failures in judgement that we have proven ourselves to be, will we blow it, or blow up?
Disappear into the space bar of the cosmic keyboard? Teach AI to delete the species entirely upon command?
Whose command? A band of bros? Who knows?
As we disintegrate, will SOS mean anything more than jifdu eyfbndkf does?
Who will translate? Who will reply?
For it won't be you. It won't be I.
And God doesn't tweet, and God doesn't lie.
c. Corinne Whitaker 1996 - 2025 and always
Viewers are encouraged to read "Requiem for a Species"
(1) Adapted from Jjfhdu Eyfbndkf , October, 2018.
(2) "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
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