Previous | Next
Previous | Next
Nothing worse than doing idiot things for a purpose but failing. Sometimes one has to ask oneself: what’s the point of being idiotic in the first place?!
———————-Alt Text———————-
Val flew them out of the trees and under and arch, down some steps, through an alley, and turning sidewise through an even narrower alley. Aliens fled left and right to get out of their way. They pulled out into a larger street, only to find all the cars who were chasing them to be right behind them again. Audri said, “What? They’re all suddenly behind us again!” Annoyed, Val said, “Phooey! And after all that fancy flying? I’m going to have to come up with even wilder moves.” Gerek said, “Please don’t.”
———————-/Alt Text———————-
Previous | Next
.
After all that mayhem, the chasers will give the credit to Gerek instead of Val.
.
“Are you okay?”
“The Bollyck didn’t kill you?”
“…Fasten your seatbelts, guys, here we go again.”
Now, show them how fast you can REALLY go Val!
Interesting: everyone has the same model car.
Competition is a sign of a mismanaged system, after all.
If there is enough to go around, the optimal state is maximal cooperation, not competition.
But that also means this year’s model is the same as last year’s, or that everyone always trade at the same time. That means no progress, and that is depressing.
If it is good, why change it?
Remember, here on earth, we’re in thrall of marketing to ultimately throw away good, working stuff, for no other reason than the whims of fashion.
That is why we won’t make it to interstellar space.
Realistically, “enough to go around” means infinite resources with perfect availability. Anything less, and someone will always want just a little more. In an imperfect system, total lack of competition means total stagnation. I believe it was Churchill that said that the only thing worse than absolute chaos is absolute order, or something to that effect.
That’s a rather pathological mindset.
The sane state is to get enough, and then stop.
Why bother to get more?
This is also why the Dyson Sphere concept is so silly.
Why harvest ALL of the energy? You just get what you need.
Human ideas about economy are sickness upon sickness.
That kind of assumes a monoculture among your sapients where everybody wants the same things and lives exactly the same way. Without that you’ll definitely have competing desires at some level, and that’s necessarily going to turn into competition in production.
To the sewers it is.
What’s the point of being idiotic in the first place? In the first place, no one who is idiotic is going to ask that question. Ever.
Secondly… it’s somewhere between a genetic predisposition and a behavioral addiction, a form of OCD that simply can’t leave any button unpushed, any rope unswung-upon, any window not flung through, any grav car unstolen. It’s just gotta happen. You understand.
Exactly! There is no point to idiocy. Every idiot knows that.
It’s all about style.
Val’s cart-driving skills are superb. With her hands occupied with fancy flying, it’s up to someone else to disable the tracker.