Oh Nooooooooo!

In the Spirit of SNL's Mr. Bill. A tragedy. An updated repost

I burnt my Dave's Killer Bread™ toast this morning! Oh Nooooooooo!

My car has ice on the windowshield and I'll have to scrape it off! Oh nooooooo!

The Republicans are in control of the House! Oh Nooooooooo!

The Democrats will be next time. Oh Nooooooooo!

There are tons of missing nuclear warheads from Soviet era armories. Oh nooooooo!

I’ve got a missing sock in the laundry! Oh noooooo!! My Happy Meal™ was missing the toy!! Oh Nooooooooo!!!

Coldest winter ever here!!! Oh Nooooooooo!!!!

Global warming is melting the poles. Oh No!

Harris didn't get elected President! Oh nooooooo!

Harris almost won! Oh Nooooooo!!!

The soles of my favorite old sneakers are coming unglued, and my sweater shrunk in the wash!! Oh Nooooooo oo!!!!

The federal debt is in the trillions and our children will be bankrupt. Oh No!

We're in the midst of the Sixth Extinction Event. Oh No!

There's a gopher in the backyard, and I saw a spider on the ceiling!!! Oh Noooooooooooooooo!!!!

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The tragedy of our species. We are certainly aware of enormous and looming problems, but we prefer to fix our attention on the short-term, the quickly resolvable issues. But, like an endless forest of trees the short-term “easy” problems never cease appearing. And we, fighting these ephemeral ills, stumble through the decades and centuries focusing on the small, deferring to an indefinite future the solving of the large. And causing the whole planet and ecosystem, as well as ourselves to suffer the consequences.

We certainly have it coming, but it is sociopathic or perhaps to coin a word, 'biopathic' to inflict our endemic procrastination and short sightedness on all the other species trapped on this planet with us.

We should all be fleeing toward the circumpolar regions and moving inland to escape the rising waters. But we won't, will we? We should be controlling our ever increasing numbers. But we won't will we? We should drop our addiction to wars and violence as a means of solving problems. But we likely never will, will we?

That's the true tragedy of our term in office as the apex species of our warming blue marble: we are genetically wired to put long term problems on the back burner. We're superb tacticians but almost useless as strategists.

And so it will continue on and on through the ages. Homo sapiens? More accurate is Homo Cunctator. Homo myops. And you know what? We couldn't care less. TL:DR

Oh nooooooo!