Mariner has a tag line that often causes a response. Many people use the trite phrase, “Kill two birds with one stone.” What did birds ever do? Mariner says “Kill two people with one bullet”.

Yes, it’s that kind of post. Mariner is afraid. He decided to watch broadcast news the other night. By the end of the evening, he felt as if he has toured a burning trash dump. The scene wasn’t one of focused debate nor one of organized battlefronts nor one of religious commitment to ethical values. It was a Donald Trump inspired bedlam – void of structure, void of promise, soaked in character assasination, and compressed under a threat to life liberty, jobs and health.

To step to the State level, it was worse; it was petty and vengeful; it was the core functions of a republic being thrown about like political trash; it was a Supreme Court without justice, fairness or equality.

AI corporations continued to trash the human psyche without moral consciousness or social empathy; It was Trump gathering billions of undocumented dollars from Arab nations for disrupting precariously balanced international relations.

It was planet Earth, itself turning vengeful because of all the Homo disrespect.

At the end of the evening, he sat for a moment to contemplate. It wasn’t just a fog or a haze, it was a fiery holocaust with no exit.

He went back to Nosey Mole’s tunnel. Mariner is afraid.

Ancient Mariner