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The Stark Evil of Artificial Intelligence

By Michael Collins Morton
Among the many forms of evil that have arisen in the 21st century, the stark evil of artificial intelligence (commonly known as AI) is one of the worst, displaying a self-evident potential to thoroughly destroy the fundamental integrity of the human community. Unfortunately, AI is quickly becoming an unavoidable factor in the overall framework of everyday life, and, as a heinous result, has begun to stealthily degrade the most definitive elements of our collective mentality. As always with threats to essential values, corporations lead the way in the use of AI, regarding it as a handy means of hugely increasing the already excessive return from their lucrative activities. AI offers corporations the opportunity to summarily rid themselves of their employees, thereby enabling greedy CEOs to expand their private wealth. As AI takes greater hold within the wicked realm of business, countless workers will be deprived of their livelihood. To an alarming degree, the regular content of the med...
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An Unpublished Letter to The Guardian Regarding the Pandemic of Covid-19

By Michael Collins Morton
(The letter below, which I wrote in an attempt to heighten awareness regarding the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, was submitted, in June, 2026, to The Guardian , a British newspaper renowned for its self-proclaimed dedication to the common good, but was not published, offering another shameful instance of a media outlet apparently being unwilling to acknowledge Covid-19 as an extreme threat to human safety.) To the editor: Although The Guardian is to be commended for regularly using its journalism to promote a thorough examination of the many problems that currently threaten the human community (climate change, nuclear weapons, rampant fascism, capitalist inequity, etc.), it has overtly failed in its moral obligation to promote the same degree of examination in regard to the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19. It appears that in 2026, The Guardian , in common with the general public, has wrongly chosen to view Covid-19 as a lesser threat (or indeed, as no threat) to human survival. The foreb...
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An Unpublished Letter to The Oregonian Regarding the Pandemic of Covid-19

By Michael Collins Morton
(In May, 2026, I composed the following letter regarding the extreme threat still posed by the pandemic of Covid-19, and, as a matter of principle, duly submitted it to the editor of The Oregonian , the leading newspaper in the state of Oregon, with the strong presumption, which not surprisingly turned out to be quite correct, that it had little chance of being published.) To the editor: Contrary to the comfortable delusion being promoted by government and media, the harsh truth is that the pandemic of Covid-19 is not over. In 2026, Covid-19 continues to spread freely (particularly in medical settings), continues to result in repeated infections, and continues to cause life-threatening harm throughout the human community. According to the website Our World in Data , the worldwide number of "estimated cumulative excess deaths" ascribable to Covid-19 since 2020 is likely to be upwards of 27 million. The complete lack of necessary measures to curb the airborne contagion of Covid...
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Artificial Intelligence Is an Enemy of Human Values

By Michael Collins Morton
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being forced upon us by our corporate masters, who seek to use it for the foul purpose of controlling our lives. Day by day, artificial intelligence is expanding its repugnant dominion, deeply encroaching on our daily experience, crudely violating the integrity of our thoughts, our beliefs, our feelings, our motives, our decisions, and our actions, thereby irrevocably diminishing our worth as human beings. Unquestionably, artificial intelligence is an enemy of human values. Under the alluring guise of "convenience," the fundamental principles that provide a foundation for the regular course of human activity are being perverted by sinister tools that have the potential to brutally override our intentions, depriving us of the ability, and the right, to make our own choices and determine our own destiny. We are being pushed into a high-tech dictatorship. Those who promote the acceptance of artificial intelligence are tricksters. The distr...
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Covid-19 Poses a Grievous Danger to Every Human Life

By Michael Collins Morton
At this stage of the ongoing pandemic, in 2026, it should be unmistakably apparent to any rational person that the uncontrolled spread of Covid-19 poses a grievous danger to every human life. Unfortunately, most people are still foolishly dwelling in a blank condition of mindless denial regarding Covid-19. It is, therefore, urgently necessary for the complete truth of Covid-19 to be strongly affirmed at every opportunity, again and again. •   •   • Covid-19 is not "just a cold." Covid-19 is not merely a "nuisance." Covid-19 is not a "respiratory disease." Covid-19 is not a "seasonal disease." Covid-19 is not, by any true reckoning, a "mild disease." •   •   • Covid-19 is an unceasing destroyer. Covid-19 has not lessened, diminished, retreated, paused, or stopped since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Covid-19 has not become endemic. Covid-19 is a savage, unrelenting disease that frequently proves to be fatal. Covid-19 should be avoide...
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President Trump's War Against Iran Is Proving to Be a Hugely Expensive Undertaking

By Michael Collins Morton
When irrational leaders choose, for their own irrational reasons, to wantonly engage in evil activities of mass killing and mass destruction, it does not come cheap. To offer a current example: the reckless war against Iran started by President Donald J. Trump (with malign support from Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel) on February 28, 2026, is proving to be a hugely expensive undertaking. According to the Pentagon, after the first few months of brutal action, the war has already cost the United States at least $29 billion, although the true expense is likely to be considerably greater. $29 billion that could have been used to help those who are poor and hungry. $29 billion that could have been used to provide necessary healthcare. $29 billion that could have been used to build affordable housing. $29 billion that could have been used to expand services for the elderly. $29 billion that could have been used to create better opportunities for young people. $29 billion tha...
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Donald Trump: Ringmaster in a Circus of Delusion and Destruction

By Michael Collins Morton
During his second term as President of the United States, Donald Trump seems bent on definitively establishing himself as one of the worst leaders in the history of the world. He appears to relish being the ringmaster in a circus of delusion and destruction. It is a circus of unrestrained ego, wherein Donald Trump loudly sings his own praises, boldly extolling his own supposed virtues as he clumsily brings about the irrevocable ruin of everything within his reach. The unbridled madness that Donald Trump represents constitutes a singular realm of overt irrationality, considerably beyond the usual foolishness of politics. It is no longer a mere question of Republicans vs. Democrats, or right vs. left. Instead, it is an unmistakable, and far more dangerous, question of sanity vs. psychosis, harshly underlining a dark struggle in which both the fate of the United States and the fundamental stability of the entire human community are starkly hanging in the balance. Donald Trump perceives hi...
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The Challenge of Maintaining Essential Safety During the Ongoing Pandemic of Covid-19

By Michael Collins Morton
With Covid-19 continuing to spread freely on a worldwide scale, countless instances of serious illness and early mortality are steadily undermining the foundation of the human community. Fundamental principles of care, concern, and caution have been heedlessly abandoned, leading to casual acceptance of unhealthy conditions that, in the long term, pose an overwhelming threat to our collective survival. The situation is extremely bad, and clearly getting worse. Respirator masks unquestionably provide the most effective means of curbing the malign advance of Covid-19, but the masses are not required to wear them, and therefore decline to wear them, which is why the masses are now destined for destruction. Since 2020, such negligence has served as a primary enabler of Covid-19. In huge crowds and in small gatherings, potentially fatal infection is constantly being passed from one person to another, in a cycle of mutual harm. For those, such as myself, who choose to resist the reckless ment...
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Trump and Netanyahu Bring a New War to the Middle East

By Michael Collins Morton
On February 28, 2026, the United States, under the irrational leadership of President Donald J. Trump, and Israel, under the abominable leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, began a united assault against the nation of Iran. For a number of months, it had been abundantly clear that Trump and Netanyahu were determined to bring a new war to the Middle East. In the first wave of the assault, scores of Iranian leaders, including the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had been the ruler of Iran since 1989, were killed in airstrikes. An Iranian school in the town of Minab was also hit, with reports of many children being killed. Iran swiftly hit back at nearby enemies, striking targets in Israel, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and other nations. The United States has a long history of corrupt dealings in regard to Iran, a history that Donald Trump, for his own overbearing, self-serving reasons, is eager to continue, using savage violence as his chosen tool of ...
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Covid-19 in 2026: An Unrelenting Plague of Irrational Denial, Deliberate Negligence, and Irreparable Harm

By Michael Collins Morton
In the seventh year of the ongoing pandemic that was first declared by the World Health Organization in March, 2020, Covid-19 continues to be an unrelenting plague of irrational denial, deliberate negligence, and irreparable harm. For most people in 2026, repeated infections of Covid-19 have become an accepted way of life, with no thought given to the lasting damage caused by those infections. Meanwhile, the heinous delusion of "business as usual" is constantly promoted, even as people increasingly sicken and perish. Denial of Covid-19 prevails throughout the entire human community. Within the foolish, careless minds of the masses, the pandemic of Covid-19 is casually framed as nothing more than ancient history, merely a brief period of unpleasantness and inconvenience that is no longer worthy of serious concern or active consideration. In truth, of course, the pandemic of Covid-19 is still happening, and is still an extreme danger, with current conditions of unrestrained con...
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Ignatius Thrumbler Provides the Answers

By Michael Collins Morton
To people who only knew him casually, Ignatius Thrumbler was regarded as the sort of person about whom there was not much to say, one way or the other. He came across as an entirely run-of-the-mill person, with no outstanding qualities whatsoever. What those people failed to understand, however, was that Ignatius Thrumbler could, if asked, easily provide the answers to all questions, including the answers to questions that had yet to be asked. "Ask me any question, and I can provide an answer," Ignatius Thrumbler said. Unfortunately, in many cases (actually, if the truth is to be told, in nearly every case), the answers that Ignatius Thrumble provided to questions were not necessarily the correct answers. For example, according to Ignatius Thrumbler, when two and two were added together, the result was five and a half, not four. Also according to Ignatius Thrumbler, the Earth was neither flat nor round, but instead, had a shape that was, in his opinion, somewhat akin to a cuc...
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