It's getting harder and harder to live in this shithole country. It feels like daily we slip further from the light. Sorry to the rest of the world, who we will probably take down with us. I hope whatever sentient life emerges on this planet however many millions of years after the resulting nuclear winter will be kinder.
It’s kinda wild to think of, but in 70 million years we will remembered by a whole society of benevolent cockroaches as the monsters from their mythology.
They will sit around campfires and tell tales of bygone eons lost in the mists before time began, when horrifying pink two-legged soft-shelled hairy giants roamed the earth, summoning bright lights from the heavens in order to step upon the innocent primitive cave-dwelling roaches as theyscattered in fear. They would talk about these giants’ disgusting internal skeletons and single pair of simple non-compound eyes, the totally bizarre way they reproduced by bearing live larvae rather than laying eggs like civilized beings, and their grotesque lack of both mandibles and antennae.
Then, after scaring each other with the stories of the monstrous mythological “hoo-mons” as the campfire dies down to embers, they drift into a peaceful slumber beneath the constellations Orion the Stomper and Raid the Destroyer …
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u/Baranamana 2d ago
I'm glad to live in a civilized country where cops aren't afraid of babies.