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- Current Events in Consciousness
- Introduction
- Man Is Dead!
- Was it murder?
Was it suicide? Was he in a plane that slammed into the side
of a mountain? Or was he blown out of the air by a Stinger missle?
Is this a murder mystery? Is it fiction or non-fiction? Maybe
it is science fiction.
- Perhaps it is all a lie
and Mankind is simply issuing forth a cry for help. Nobody liked
him anymore. Even the aliens looked down on him: the inferior
self-destructive little creature that he was. A pathetic little
blob of a being who couldn't survive without being propped up
by fellow workers. Terribly inefficient. Not a race that could
survive for very long. And they wouldn't even help each other
without some sort of guarantee that they could call in their
loan of help at any time. Maybe their barn burned down and everyone
was expected to be there to lend their physical brute strength
and help rebuild. Not out of caring for their neighbor, but because
of their little subconscious insurance policy kept to save their
own tired little asses.
- Some people are quick
to kill someone. We call them criminals. They see a reflection
of themselves and let go a few rounds in fear. They are the ones
with little imagination. The rest of us just sit around and watch
each other die holding a beer up to the sky when it's not us.
Some of us hurry things along with more self-destructive habits.
Then there are the leaders. They make sure not to kill anyone
until they've squeezed every last bit of juice from the people
and then they'll take your body parts. They might even use you
dead to get a few extra votes. And when they're done doing that,
they will label you a criminal, anti-social or a religious nut
to keep everyone else in line. Of course there is always the
possibility you will become a statistic and live forever.
- But as Marvin Harris said
in the introduction to his book, Why Nothing Works, "With
A.D. 2000, the end of the second millennium looming a few short
years ahead, could not the premonition of a cosmic Armageddon
become a self-fulfilling prophecy? Already they are suggesting
that the end is near and that there is nothing we can do about
it."
- You know, it's funny.
When people contemplate their own death, it often doesn't seem
so threatening. But when they are faced with the death of their
species suddenly they become terrorized by the prospect. Perhaps
because it means change on a bigger scale and that it requires
something from them that wasn't necessary simply for their own
demise. Maybe it's because no one will be going to their funeral
if they are all dead. Maybe we could send someone to the United
Nations and ask Koffe Annan to draft an agreement that Mankind
will die consecutively. That way we can each go to each others'
funerals and there will always be someone to bury the others.
Of course, the last person to die would have to be an atheist
and believe in cremation. That way they could just set themselves
on fire and no one would need to say any words over them. In
addition they would have to have a memorial there as one last
salute to idiocy. Perhaps a statue of a confused looking bureaucrat
holding a match in his hand. He would have to be standing on
some sort of a platform. One that is too high to climb up on,
but not so high you could kill yourself if you jumped off. We
wouldn't want anyone to get hurt. And there would be a plaque
already set in place on the monument. In big, shiny brass letters
it would simply read: Man Is Dead!
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- ~ Dr. Derek Lamar
(Man Is Dead)
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