By Leela Bear
The landscape is barren. The train speeds through it.
I am headed to the megalopolis for an interview. Television screens in the cabin distract the passengers from an overwhelming immediate reality beyond their windows.
No one can remember when the conditioning started, but it was effective. Slowly the plants disappeared into tunnel farms, and beasts into confined feeding lots. Steaks moved into the labs to be grown in petri dishes, and nobody seems to remember the sound of the wind through the trees.
I wake up with my stop nearing. Everything is a familiar past; the screens have become commonplace already.
What a bleak world. Poignant because at times it feels like that’s the way we’re headed.
Modern civilization with all its distractions from Nature does take its toll. Like Scott, above, I fear this is where we are headed. Perhaps there will be a very real good side to all this, too. Anyway, I liked this one.
Funny how trains are now a symbol of our crumbling industrial past. Dig this story.
This has got an eerily real feel to it. Well done.
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