Submitted by lonnarin on October 10, 2007 - 11:18am.
I find it entirely egoentric of humanity to believe that the world ends when they themselves can no longer survive in it. This planet has undergone a multitude of apocalypses, each one wiping the slate semi-clean with the surviving remnants adapting and evolving to the new environs. Whether paramecium, trilobyte, dinosaur, wooly mammoth, giant sloth, caveman, human or magma monster, life will survive, and it will grow to fit the new mold of the world around it. I wholeheartedly embrace the future wastelands of scorching deserts and nuclear mutations, vaguely humanoid descendants with heat-reflective scales and nictating membranes over their eyes to shield them from the ozone-depleted atmosphere rife with radioactive sunlight. Who is to say that their lives, their culture and right to develop should be superceded by this arrogant, hairless ape of humanity? The fittest of us shall survive in the bomb shelter cities beneath the crust, and we will evolve into the hairless telepathic albinos of our own choosing. And if by some chance we are utterly obliterated, scientists of the next civilization shall unearth our artifacts and study our lives to live on as lore. Having grown up playing with toy dinosaurs, I am honored to know that one day a little albino, tentacle mutant may be playing with action figures made in my image.
Oh, and we shall NEVER run out of resources. Not so long as at least one man remains with more than one limb left and the stomach to pursue cannibalism. If my grandfather could survive six weeks in a foxhole eating bootleather, then the starving tribesmen of Africa in their lush jungle environs ripe for hunting only starve by their own choosing. Too many little starving babies? Feed half of them to the other half... problem solved. It's the darned moralist survivalists and their obsession with prolonging their bloodlines who cause the brunt of the suffering.
*happily enjoys his soylent green*
Edit: I see today Al Gore just won a Noble Peace Prize for informing the world of climate change. Very strange, I was always under the assumption that one had to spread peace via quelling wars and making diplomacy between nations for this prize... at LEAST speaking up about human rights or something related to peace. Alas, one must simply do a powerpoint presentation on the unrelated topic of their own choosing to be a prized peacemaker. Next I hope they will give the Achievments in Chemistry award to Donald Trump. I mean, he had a hit TV show lately, so there had to be SOME chemistry, right?
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I find it entirely egoentric of humanity to believe that the world ends when they themselves can no longer survive in it. This planet has undergone a multitude of apocalypses, each one wiping the slate semi-clean with the surviving remnants adapting and evolving to the new environs. Whether paramecium, trilobyte, dinosaur, wooly mammoth, giant sloth, caveman, human or magma monster, life will survive, and it will grow to fit the new mold of the world around it. I wholeheartedly embrace the future wastelands of scorching deserts and nuclear mutations, vaguely humanoid descendants with heat-reflective scales and nictating membranes over their eyes to shield them from the ozone-depleted atmosphere rife with radioactive sunlight. Who is to say that their lives, their culture and right to develop should be superceded by this arrogant, hairless ape of humanity? The fittest of us shall survive in the bomb shelter cities beneath the crust, and we will evolve into the hairless telepathic albinos of our own choosing. And if by some chance we are utterly obliterated, scientists of the next civilization shall unearth our artifacts and study our lives to live on as lore. Having grown up playing with toy dinosaurs, I am honored to know that one day a little albino, tentacle mutant may be playing with action figures made in my image.
Oh, and we shall NEVER run out of resources. Not so long as at least one man remains with more than one limb left and the stomach to pursue cannibalism. If my grandfather could survive six weeks in a foxhole eating bootleather, then the starving tribesmen of Africa in their lush jungle environs ripe for hunting only starve by their own choosing. Too many little starving babies? Feed half of them to the other half... problem solved. It's the darned moralist survivalists and their obsession with prolonging their bloodlines who cause the brunt of the suffering.
*happily enjoys his soylent green*
Edit: I see today Al Gore just won a Noble Peace Prize for informing the world of climate change. Very strange, I was always under the assumption that one had to spread peace via quelling wars and making diplomacy between nations for this prize... at LEAST speaking up about human rights or something related to peace. Alas, one must simply do a powerpoint presentation on the unrelated topic of their own choosing to be a prized peacemaker. Next I hope they will give the Achievments in Chemistry award to Donald Trump. I mean, he had a hit TV show lately, so there had to be SOME chemistry, right?