Red Rock Country

The Enigmas of the Western American Psyche

Why do so many Americans live in mythical cowboylands?
Why are they uncomfortable without Bibles
& double-barrel pistols in their hands?

Why are so many Americans stuck at minimum wage?
How can a two-class society be democratic
if most people are confined to poverty from birth to grave?

Riding the red rocks ah America's barren lands
shifting through shallow logic & consumer demand
it seems like ah gunsmoke showdown
aint far out ah han'.

Terri:	This notion of a western 'show down' doesn't work well in a hyper-surveillance age with algorithms that will spew out enough disinformation to manipulate the populace precisely as leaders wish.
Kris:	(pretending to chew tobacco, then speaking with a thick cowboy accent) Fer sure, ol' padner!
Terri:	If male hormones run their natural course, I wonder if humanity has a future . . . .
Sam:	Armageddon is a scenario that should never be allowed to happen. And perhaps the only way to avoid that is to let ethical AI systems take over because humans have badly messed up. Also, we must unite and come to recognize how deeply connected we are.
Ted:	(spitting, then grimacing) Oh yeah! Hee-haw, yack yack!