June 13, 2020–The rainy season seems to have started. It reminds me of the Japan of by-gone days when every Japanese took it as a seasonal natural turn. Like the Byrds’ hit song. It brought rain, day in and out, making everything wet and moldy, and people to wish for the early arrival of the scorching summer heat and clear blue skies as cicadas scrape their feathers so noisily that you fear your ear drums might pop. Summer always arrived after lightenings and thunderstorms scaring children and animals and signaling the rainy season’s end. And yet you do not dislike what felt like the eternal drizzle and appreciate watching the threads falling from the gray sky noiselessly to the slowly meandering river, then to rice paddies that awoke green a short days ago. I realize finding myself liking the beginning of this season now for I am no longer certain whether it would actually come every year. It was a dry rainy season last year and I think the year before was too. Man find comfort and stability in cyclical turns and routines. We had it before the internet revolution of the 1980s-1990s, and the dissipation if it as the revolution expanded to mobilizing AI, robotics, IoT…that arbitrarily cause degradation and dehumanization of fauna and flora, including humans stripping us of necessary animal senses (called the Sixth Sense) and pulling us below our pets in terms of mammal capacity.
Is this what we want to head for?!
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