Gearbox the shadows into a machine: technology saves The puppy from the river, reads the headline newspaper byline On cable stews there are yelling heads, leather belts holding back A nihilistic wasteland, suffering cows crow to the bolt hole and Wish they knew how to use opposable thumbs to prevent where They know they are going; are those bad assumptions? Anthropo Morphism crimes against humanity by creating more of it elsewhere; That's tribalism, damnit, the lesser of all popular evils, even if the Philosophers claim we got beyond it, and rather than the Great Fool Theory of History, we see the interconnected bacterial non-willed Accidents that might as well have been astrological, but there's no Math in stochastic nonsense-prediction, only a little bit of profit as The soothing sayers lead people to see their fingernails and taste gold