Monday, March 28, 2011

Sum of All Achievements

i think it's kinda funny that the entirety of human technology and achievement has come down to this; that quite simply, we have mastered the ability to exterminate ourselves. Congratulations humanity!

I can imagine a symposium of all mother nature's animals gathering together to talk about their latest achievements. Some animals will have extreme speed, power, agility. There will be kewl inventors like African termites who are master constructors and who have created air conditioning. There will be gross animals like finches who are designed to dive bomb other birds til they vomit so the finches can eat the vomit up. Then humanity, the darling of mother nature, will be asked, "so, what are your latest accomplishments.

The human will get up and say, "get this. We can exterminate ourselves!"
Then the following responses:

Lion: D:
Penguin: D:
Rhino: D:
gross finches: D:

Mother Nature: Um, congratulations humanity. You've uh...you've been working on that for quite a while.

Human being: Yep.

Mother Nature: is that it?

Human Being: Uh. Yeah. It's the entire sum of our achievements. It's what we've been aiming for.

Human smiles proudly.

"Good for you," Mother Nature says as she slowly turns to another animal, a clear look of horrid, shock, and concern on her face gasping at the thought that for all the hard work she did and humanity themselves did, that this was what they had come up with.

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