WORLD APPROACHING SINGULARITY OF META-STUPEFACTION

 

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(Everywhere) - From Brooklyn to Belfast, from the Serengeti to the Sierra Madres humanity has been caught off guard by 2020. Antiscientific sentiment, superstitious religious belief, ethnocentrism, and national exceptionalism are rampant in a world that, just a few years prior, had been seeing some of its most hopeful advances in terms of progressive behavior. However, with a species that has regularly used discovery and innovation that could have been marshalled against threats like ignorance and famine to create short-lived capitalist windfalls, the biggest surprise is that it is still a surprise.

"I've been studying humanity for more than forty years," said Dr. Anderson McIver, a Harvard-based anthropologist. "We really ought to be better than this. But, I suppose on an existential level, we're just not. You want to keep hoping - even the most pessimistic among us do. It just seems natural that a species - any species - wants its offspring to survive, we want our genetic code, our ideas, our culture, our ideas to survive us. We want humanity, on some level, to survive. But... then, we spend billions of dollars so that young men can give each other concussions on a sports field and kill each other in battle, but the coffers are empty when it comes to fighting disease. Why? Thanatophilia? Could it be?"

According to NYU psychologist, Dr. T.H. Washington, "It doesn't make a lot of sense that people are still so stupefied by the surprises in 2020. Awful things happen. Yes. But, then they happen again? Well certainly. The best predictor to whether or not something can happen is to ask whether or not it has happened before. It's not a direct corollary to ask whether or not simply because something bad has happened more bad things will follow, but, really, why wouldn't more bad things continue happening? Phenomena like semantic saturation show the human psyche's resistance to the repetition of reactions. It stands to reason that we'd lose our sense of amazement at the terrible things that keep happening. We don't though. We keep thinking that bad things won't happen. If nothing else we should stop being surprised at our own surprise. But, we don't even get that. It creates a feedback loop of being shocked."

"For instance, if Donald Trump fired the entirety of the US nuclear arsenal at the remaining polar ice caps, most people would be shocked. Why? Why would we be surprised? And then, why would we be surprised that we were surprised? Can a person even be surprised that they're surprised that they're surprised? We're reaching new levels of stupefaction at our stupefaction every day. It the kind of meta that can't keep going forever. At a certain point, we'll be at singularity, every bit of kinetic energy devoted to shock that we're still shocked. At a certain point, we'll-"