Humans Have Always Held Sway

[Philosophical Musing]

Driving an electronic car with a will of its own

with an electronic voice telling us where to go,

two screens: one with a picture of us, another

with a map of the world outside and an arrow

 

Showing us where we are and this is the end

of every existential crisis, the end of free will

as the car slows down when it observes an

obstacle correcting us in every way, we have

 

Become the slaves of the electronic equivalent

of Henry Higgins pointing out our every mistake,

the car is gently steering us into a glorious new

day, telling and showing us where we are in the

 

Universe and if a car can do this, what wonderful

things can be done by universal consciousness  

or even Jung’s collective subconscious; we’re all

connected by the Internet and a guru says it is

 

But an external symbol of our inner connectivity

which has been there through the ages; we are

having fun with a talking car & Tag Only passes

through the toll gates, passing a rural road with

 

Cows amiably ambling along quite unaware of us

in our strict & patronizing automobile, but wait, we

are human beings, soon we’ll find a way to override

the tricks of the car, this is the way humans have

 

Always held sway over the world and themselves