Obuse, 11.05.2023
When asked to describe humans, Zorg answered: “Well, they live for around 80 years if not struck down sooner by disease or misadventure. They spend their first two decades learning to eat, walk, speak and function within institutions. For those who fail the latter adaptation and are unable to cope not breaking society’s laws, there is an institution known as prison, which along with its allied industry the ‘criminal justice system’ has a generous revolving door policy. For those who do graduate from these learnings, some go straight into paid work, while others delay their entry into paid work by several years’ study. While holding down these paid jobs, they pair off, sometimes multiple times, reproduce, take holidays, celebrate important milestones and anniversaries, and generally enmesh themselves with the economy, health systems and tax regimes of the countries in which they live or are citizens, and if they make it to pension age, they then spend a decade plus or minus several years, being ‘retired’ and unwanted members of society (except for the free child care they provide to the offspring of their direct descendants). They then die, often leaving behind property and complex and unresolved financial affairs for others to have to have to sift through, divide up or dispose of. Throughout all of this, they somehow manage to find small moments of happiness in amongst the long stretches of tedium, hard work, sleep, dreaming, eating and food preparation. Hobbies are sometimes indulged by those lucky enough to still be healthy and dementia-free in their retirement. A certain proportion of humans have ‘religious’ beliefs that involve an ‘afterlife’. None have returned from this mythical ‘afterlife’ to report to the living on whether it is real or just a figment of the human imagination. Strangely enough, some of these ‘religions’ teach that only the members of that religion can enter this ‘afterlife’ and all other deceased humans cannot. Despite the illogicality of multiple ‘religions’ holding this same belief, and in the absence of evidence, their adherents blindly believe this to be the case. A curious bunch, these humans. Despite being apex predators and mastering industrial-scale food production, and having reasonably large brains capable of complex problem-solving, they have proven themselves to be highly irrational animals prone to making the same mistakes over and over, failing to see the folly of their ways and how their very actions are making the planet that they are perfectly adapted to inhabit, uninhabitable. I’ve spent many years amongst these humans, but I still cannot fathom their short-term stupidity.”
Obuse, 11.05.2023
When asked to describe humans, Zorg answered: “Well, they live for around 80 years if not struck down sooner by disease or misadventure. They spend their first two decades learning to eat, walk, speak and function within institutions. For those who fail the latter adaptation and are unable to cope not breaking society’s laws, there is an institution known as prison, which along with its allied industry the ‘criminal justice system’ has a generous revolving door policy. For those who do graduate from these learnings, some go straight into paid work, while others delay their entry into paid work by several years’ study. While holding down these paid jobs, they pair off, sometimes multiple times, reproduce, take holidays, celebrate important milestones and anniversaries, and generally enmesh themselves with the economy, health systems and tax regimes of the countries in which they live or are citizens, and if they make it to pension age, they then spend a decade plus or minus several years, being ‘retired’ and unwanted members of society (except for the free child care they provide to the offspring of their direct descendants). They then die, often leaving behind property and complex and unresolved financial affairs for others to have to have to sift through, divide up or dispose of. Throughout all of this, they somehow manage to find small moments of happiness in amongst the long stretches of tedium, hard work, sleep, dreaming, eating and food preparation. Hobbies are sometimes indulged by those lucky enough to still be healthy and dementia-free in their retirement. A certain proportion of humans have ‘religious’ beliefs that involve an ‘afterlife’. None have returned from this mythical ‘afterlife’ to report to the living on whether it is real or just a figment of the human imagination. Strangely enough, some of these ‘religions’ teach that only the members of that religion can enter this ‘afterlife’ and all other deceased humans cannot. Despite the illogicality of multiple ‘religions’ holding this same belief, and in the absence of evidence, their adherents blindly believe this to be the case. A curious bunch, these humans. Despite being apex predators and mastering industrial-scale food production, and having reasonably large brains capable of complex problem-solving, they have proven themselves to be highly irrational animals prone to making the same mistakes over and over, failing to see the folly of their ways and how their very actions are making the planet that they are perfectly adapted to inhabit, uninhabitable. I’ve spent many years amongst these humans, but I still cannot fathom their short-term stupidity.”