Yesterday, 09:41 AM
Claims of Omniscience
Darling automóbile will not
let me lift my hands from her wheel
even though she steers, insisting
she knows where this road is bending.
She has LIDAR, which can suss out
lane-marks, obstacles and other
cars at frequencies I cannot,
being merely human-sighted.
So, through waterfalls of blinding
rain we race at sixty miles per
hour, confident that brakes and
LIDAR will suffice to save us.
Madness, really, to reside one’s
trust in mechanisms merely
meant to help. Yet airline pilots
do, I did, and now I’m writing.
Darling automóbile will not
let me lift my hands from her wheel
even though she steers, insisting
she knows where this road is bending.
She has LIDAR, which can suss out
lane-marks, obstacles and other
cars at frequencies I cannot,
being merely human-sighted.
So, through waterfalls of blinding
rain we race at sixty miles per
hour, confident that brakes and
LIDAR will suffice to save us.
Madness, really, to reside one’s
trust in mechanisms merely
meant to help. Yet airline pilots
do, I did, and now I’m writing.
Non-practicing atheist