The great cities have risen & fallen. Civilizations
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The great cities have risen & fallen. Civilizations grip on mankind is weak & arthritic. Dark forces renew forgotten covenants. Primordial beasts reclaim the wilderness. Out of the
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most remote corner of the most remote wilderness emerged Omega, awakened by the screams of the siren of the darkest deep, Thexapie. It was their time to conquer, to reign, to
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flourish, to proliferate, and so they did. However, in times to come Omega and Thexapie's progeny sought to delve even deeper, to fathom the mysteries beyond the noumenon, and so
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discover the meaning of everything. This made the Omexites a little self-satisfied. If anyone told them, for example, where they'd gone on holiday, they'd say, "Oh, we went there w
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ith a giant submarine sandwich with extra mayo." The Omexities were like that. They attached mirrors to their hats so they could smugly smile at themselves and think things
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that they really shouldn't, as the Omexities were sworn to humility. Not to mention chastity. They were a strange bunch indeed, but their technical prowess kept them from falling
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For the politically correct bullshit that passed for news some four years after this story was started. The Oxemites were blamed for the collapse of western culture as we knew it.
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It was suggested all Oxemites should drag themselves through Bright Canyon while wrapped in bacon. Most of us never went that far but it wasn't unusual to hear it at the meetings.
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"Again with the bacon...!" the Head Oximite groaned as the same tired idea came up time and again. We took a vote and it was decided that wearing eggs on our heads would be better.
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Except, as usual, that same voice ( or voices, or people) crept up, and the vote was tabled and the matter not resolved and we broke for lunch-bacon-foods and resumed and voted....
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- 2013-01-31 18:25:39
- Finished
- 2017-05-31 23:14:27
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BlastedHeath Jun 01 2017 @ 21:09
Slim, that is a grand and thought-provoking opener that could sprout many essays. It reads like R. E. Howard and H. G. Wells decided to collab. RE: "Civilizations grip on mankind is weak & arthritic." That had me thinking about how civilization is and has been created and maintained. Thank goodness that against civilizations imposed by fear and force we also and still have communities and humanities kept alive by various forms of willing, voluntary and consensual cat's cradle.
LordVacuity Jun 01 2017 @ 23:02
Perhaps Civilization, itself, is the enemy. Why not tear it down to its roots and let it try again? Maybe it has learned its lesson.
Woab Jun 02 2017 @ 11:11
This civilization will probably tear itself down before real civilization can begin.
SlimWhitman Jun 03 2017 @ 03:46
Disclosure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvKYkFPirBY sometimes I just plop something I think is promising into a Foldingstory intro to see where it leads. Interesting discussion in any case.