Suicidal Moron World.

[iconoclast]

Once upon a time there was an average man stuck on a world inhabited by suicidal morons - who neither cared, nor were able to understand that the whole species was headed for extinction.

He attempted to explain that they were all going to die if they didn't cooperate, but the suicidal morons were all busy collecting pieces of paper - bleaching and dying them in attempt to make all the pieces of paper the same colour, in the name of Bod - the Creator.

Conceptions of Bod varied ever so slightly from region to region, hence the different colours. Some thought Bod was red, some that Bod was white and others that Bod was blue.

'Our Bod has more paper than your Bod' called out one group of morons one day, causing the other group to write in Bod's Big Book - 'he who has lots of paper can never enter the magical forest.'

This proved to be something of an embarrassment ten generations later when the situation was reversed - but morons being morons - they just ignored that bit, and carried on cutting down all the trees to make ever more paper, pouring leftover ink into the sea until it turned quite black.

'Stop it, stop it' cried the average man - but the morons just carried on, largely because they were too stupid to work out how to do things differently, but secretly because they knew it was stupid and wanted to erase themselves and Bod's Big Book from existence.

[GoshisDead]

So much for the addage, In the land of the blind, the sighted man is King.

[socrato]

Why would we be called suicidal morons, that not what God created.

[iconoclast]

Goshisdead,

The addage would hold true were it not that the blind had arranged things such that the blinder the king the better. The king doesn't need sight to be able to see what they hold to be true - indeed, if he could see he couldn't call himself king.

iconoclast.

[iconoclast]

Socrato,

TYPO:

Why would we be called suicidal morons, that not what God created.

You mean Bod!

iconoclast.

[BrightNoon]

Why should I care that humanity will become extinct if this occurs after I am dead? Also, regardless of how thoroughly well you arrange some socialist utopia, homo sapiens will eventually dissappear. And why should it be preserved; it is better to live briefly and spectacularly than to cling to a senility that savours of anti-climax.

Nonetheless, I enjoyed your story.

[iconoclast]

BrightNoon,

okay, you're on the list and when the time comes you can make way - easing the burden on the earth and/or freeing the resources to support someone who does care - because if you don't care if humankind continues to exist - why should the reverse hold true?

iconoclast.

[Theaetetus]

Originally Posted by BrightNoon

Why should I care that humanity will become extinct if this occurs after I am dead? Also, regardless of how thoroughly well you arrange some socialist utopia, homo sapiens will eventually dissappear. And why should it be preserved; it is better to live briefly and spectacularly than to cling to a senility that savours of anti-climax.

Nonetheless, I enjoyed your story.

You had the right to exist, so why shouldn't those who come after you? Actually it is better to live wisely rather than briefly and spectacularly. The spectacular comes into play when one follows wisdom, not to mention, so does longevity and perseverance.

[iconoclast]

brightnoon,

You had no right to exist - and if your mother hadn't cared that you existed when she became preganant, (and given up following the Rolling Stones tour to settle down in small-town America) you wouldn't exist.



iconoclast.

p.s. head over to 'eulogy for humankind' to check out Aedes baby: Max. He is the cutest little chap on earth. Look at him and tell me it doesn't matter. Of course it matters.

[paulhanke]

Originally Posted by BrightNoon

Why should I care that humanity will become extinct if this occurs after I am dead? Also, regardless of how thoroughly well you arrange some socialist utopia, homo sapiens will eventually dissappear.

... it seems to me to be a sad commentary on Western culture that the only options open to it are every-man-for-himself or else a government-enforced-socialist-utopia (which sounds like no utopia at all) ... it's too bad we're all deeply enculturated with the fiction that it's against our individual interests to simply give a sh*t!