There’s No Fix for What Can’t Quit

Obsessed with causal theories
And social obligations,
Many people ask themselves,

Is something in us broken,
Or have we broken ourselves?
Let this thought occur to you—

You are desperate (life is),
You are hungry and make waste
(Life does this, and life eats it),

And you are obligately
Social (most social lives are),
But you are not yet failures,

And if anything’s broken,
It’s whatever engine brakes
Runaway technology,

Which is also the engine
Of all you could call success.
Who knows if this has a cliff?