my analogy for my Ishmael paper
The way it is, human culture is kind of like a two-liter bottle of Pepsi. When first opened, there seems to be no limit as to how much a person can drink. It is bubbly, refreshing, and quite invigorating due to the high caffeine content. But as time goes on, it sits in the fridge slowly being drained. After awhile the drinker of the beverage gets lazy and doesn't screw the lid tight enough on the top. This is the fall of the Pepsi. Evils begin to leak into the container making it go flat and have a bitter taste. The problem is that people have to keep drinking the Pepsi no matter how nasty it gets because it is a house rule that a new bottle is not allowed to be opened until all of the old is gone, and in culture there are no sinks that the Pepsi can be drained into. Man is like the bitter, flat, old Pepsi and it cannot open a new bottle of life until somebody buckles down and finishes off all the nastiness that we as a race have left for ourselves. Someone must take action before the Pepsi evaporates and all man will have left is the backwash of a nation that refused to take responsibility for its arrogant actions that have lead to the demise of a race. If and when evaporation occurs without anyone stepping in to help man, it will be the extinction or the complete fall of man and/or the world. If man decides to finally suck up all that he has done and restart with life that has meaning and laws then it will start a new dawn for all of mankind. A time when life will seem refreshing, bubbly, and invigorating like that newly opened bottle of Pepsi.