Edmond walked for miles through the mud to reach the store. He’d heard a rumor of midnight-deliveries of Spam and Toilet-Paper.
It had been raining for a fortnight which had flooded the area. Fortunately, his bedroom was still on high ground.
Before the torrent, there was drought and locusts.
War and pandemic killed his family and friends so there wasn’t any real famine for the few survivors.
Some said Armageddon others blamed climate change. Maybe both were right.
He remembered praising Mammon disguised as Trucks and double-car garages
but Gasoline was heresy.
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me”
© J Hardy Carroll
When I saw the image of the car I thought about how we have raised our man-made machines to a divine status. With climate change coming (and maybe even connecting to the outbreak of Covid-19) we might see the first change in what’s coming. I am not particularly religious, but from what I remember when reading the bible we are guilty of many sins, maybe even the sin of false idols.
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March 18, 2020
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Spam? We’re not having spam again are we? I thought we saw the bac of that 60 years ago
Spam is for Sunday’s… the other days it’s cabbage
With the way this virus has destroyed society, it looks like we are hardly able to cope with much more. Perhaps it will act as the wake up call we really need to start taking climate change seriously.
I wonder
The world does feel like it’s going right to hell doesn’t it?
I think the way we are changing our ways of life at the moment will leave long-lasting impacts… maybe we will come out in a much better place in the end.
I like to think so.
A clever linking of the photoprompt and the bible. Pretty accurate theologically, too.
Thank you… I’m not particularly religious, but I do have problems with people only see one side of the scriptures.
Good take on the prompt, Bjorn. There will come a day when spam and cabbage is a pleasant memory… You’re right, God warned us before about of worship of idols. We have no excuse.
Maybe it takes a sinner like me to point out the problems we all have.
“All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Maybe, like the replicants in Blade Runner, we have a built-in expiration date? Maybe God used us as prototypes to see what we’d do with this heaven of earth? Somehow I think we’ve failed the test.
Yeeks. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to this. Nice one!
I think it’s already there (we have just not realized it yet)
Björn, your poem touched me deeply. In a seemingly light way you take up such serious short comings by us humans.
Mammon raised as a Truck ……
Well, there was also the Gokden Calf.
We better mend our ways whilst there is still time.
miriam
I hope we will learn from the current crisis
Dear Björn,
I suppose if it comes between me and starvation I’ll gag down Spam. 😉 Love where you went with this. “Blame the angels, blame the fates, blame the Jews or your sister Kate.” (Buffy Saint Marie) We all need someone to blame, don’t we? Hope you’re weathering the Corona storm.
Shalom,
Rochelle
If it was me and starvation I would probably eat cat food (maybe that’s better than Spam though)
Nice take. You’re right, cars, fashion, phones etc, they’ve all been elevated to a status where we virtually worship them and it’s obscene
I think some of the reaction we are seeing is just our personal emotions and not facts… and that’s obscene.
It’s when the Spam runs out we’ll need to worry!
Well as long as there is cabbage we’ll be fine.
spam i could understand. but toilet paper? what about it that causes panic buying?
I don’t understand it either…
Clever. And a reminder to not take life so seriously.
Or be careful what you wish for.
Wishes can get one in trouble.
I agree with Michael. We need to be taken down a notch or two. Back to the basics….
I feel like we are taking a crash course on that…
I resisted the urge to buy Spam – I got corned beef instead!
I think there was cat food to choose from as well.
I’m reading this in my comfortable home, enjoying fresh, warm spring air and clear blue skies. Just had lunch, and supper is planned. We have sufficient TP because we always buy the big 24-pack and had just purchased one before the hysteria hit. We’ll sleep safely and well, and we’re doing the social distancing and handwashing, etc.
This too shall pass.
sadly a realistic view … but money and materialism [hoarding] seem the false idols of most ..
Cabbage and spam, that might work.🙂
Reminds me of Ragnarok. Even gods can be screwed and humans act like gods…