Archimedes and the Seagle by David Ireland

Archimedes and the Seagle by David Ireland

Author:David Ireland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ligature Pty Limited
Published: 2021-11-09T04:08:12+00:00


79 / Gripes about Humans

Most humans have little money: yet they’re all trying to buy the world on time payment.

They kill each other, singly and in wars, yet they’re all going to die anyway. It’s as if the survivor has somehow won something by not being next to die.

They allow lunatics in public office, people who crave power over others, who crave to see others obey them.

They kill killers, or hide them away out of sight, instead of putting them on permanent show in cities so their crimes can be read by those gazing at such creatures.

They freeze the worn-out bodies of those able to afford it, to be thawed in the future, when medical science can revive the dead. As if death is just a word.

They accept money as compensation for the loss of health or limbs, and for the death of their loved ones.

They need to communicate constantly, yet they speak in hundreds of different tongues.

Much of their populations are unaware of their countries’ range of culture, or have no desire to know it. They are, effectively, citizens of nowhere.

Humans agree that money is essentially worthless, but all agree to value everything by it, including themselves.

Those who do the dirtiest and most dangerous work often receive the least reward for it.

Mankind considers that individuals may own pieces of the surface of the planet, and don’t think this is ludicrous.

Humans paint parts of their bodies!

Don’t humans understand that they need to work, need to be occupied? More and more people are now born on to the planet every year, so more jobs are needed for all sorts of people. But those who can affect the position are busy building machines to replace people. It can’t come to any good.

They seem to organize their actions so there’s inflation and recession, boom and bust: perhaps these happenings are accurate portraits of the human race. They’re like kids who just won’t be good. They could, if they tried, be restrained, prudent, careful, content with little, avoiding luxuries, turning a deaf ear to greed. Instead, they take all they can get, in any circumstances, and before long, there’s nothing left but debts.

Humans are pack animals, like dogs are. They pine for a leader, someone to look at, to emulate, to please, to love. But it’s not in their interests, if ever they want to grow up, to have this leader. Fortunately there is an apathy, a guilt, an uncertainty that usually pulls them up short of this authoritarian leader.

What I don’t understand is the human attitude to the things I read in the Book every day. The Guests, for instance, the people round about, the ones I pass in the street—they don’t seem to want to learn about what humans can know, and what humans can do. They haven’t yet joined their civilization. All the information is filed away in libraries and so on, but very few ever look at it. It’s left to a chance person, a student maybe, a dissatisfied and restless mind; but otherwise only those in the knowledge industry have close contact with it.



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