“Well we tried, lads.” The bushy gray brows of his face pinched close, appearing as one. “We almost made the singularity, but…” He paused to look out the observatory window, over a landscape of arid land that once comprised the southern slopes of a once equatorial jungle.
His tie was removed with one hand as his other smoothed back thinning hair. “But we failed. We took the masses, told them they were the driving force to nirvana, then took their money and gave them what? Toys. Doodads. Pocket computer, cell phones, cameras, futuristic pieces of plastic.”
He pulled his cell phone from his pockets and roughly tossed it onto the aluminium desk. “But they didn’t NEED that… did they? No! They didn’t need car’s the size of elephants. They didn’t NEED supercomputers in their homes, on which they could watch high definition drivel produced by intelligent men forced to hid their stories under… dick and fart jokes.”
He chuckled to himself one indigent chuckle. “They didn’t need any of it. We knew that. Of course we did, but how else we would continue our funding? Governments?! Ha!”
“No we had to suck at the teet of economic. We had to conduct that lowest of conversations, business. We sold the world piece by piece in hopes that we would outpace the greed and gluttony of the world. America ensured our failure.”
“And even as we told them to stop; even as we stopped ourselves, the world was too pregnant with our creation. We gave the masses science, engineering, chemistry, and they picked it up in very much the way the first apes hoisted their feces. They flung it about with celebratory abandon until the earth was sickened with the smell.”
“We armed them with magic! These burger eating, reality show watching, spring break viagra fueled fools. We handed it over… Sold it really. And then we wonder how it all got so out of control.”
“We’ll burn with the rest of them.” He turned up his chin and stared out over the horizon. “When the fires begin, and with so little ozone left, we’ll burn with them. We in our lab coats and they in their designer underwear, we’ll burn.”
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