old story re-post
CONSUMERISM IS A DISEASE WHERE YOU BUY THINGS
It never came out on video. They didn't release it because it came on VHS. Noone would touch VHS, they had heard it was a disease. The worst, most infectious, insidious, contagious and undignified diseases, (and business words about taking action) were always acronyms. When you had these diseases everyone knew you had done something that society had collectively decided was wrong. The only thing people thought that they could watch safely now was Digital Video Disks.
Emotions were complex things. Some emotions were bad, some emotions were good. Humans had emotions. Humans also had an ugly large grey mass made up of tissue, nerves, chemicals and a thick red liquid called blood. This ugly grey mass was what made emotions. It also did other stuff. Some smart people who always had the bad emotions worked out that by doing things to plants or by mixing chemicals together, or mixing chemicals with plants, could make another chemical that could fool the thing which made emotions to be tricked into feeling something that it shouldn't. These chemicals were called euphoric DRUGS. The part of the way these DRUGS worked was that they affected the level of other chemicals in the thing that made emotions. These other chemicals were called serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine and acetylcholine. Tricking the thing that made emotions sometimes made it not work properly. There was a theory that the 4 chemicals that were inside the thing that made emotions, were in the wrong quantities and balances inside the body.*
* Earlier humans thought that the body worked, and stayed working through there being 4 'humors' within the right quantities and balances inside the body. These humors were named on the elements, and each humor represented a fluid inside the body. Air was blood, fire was yellow bile, water was phlegm, and black bile was earth. To fix people, they tried to change the levels of these humors within people. This sometimes did not fix people. Sometimes it broke them. When a person broke they were dead. A long time later someone realized that this theory was a load of shit.
Ironically; when the thing that made emotions was not working properly, it made the person whom it belonged to try to make it work even less properly. Making it work less properly meant breaking it. Breaking it meant killing themselves.
The reason all these people were breaking themselves was LOVE. LOVE was a balance of all those chemicals, caused by a fondness for another person, which made the person feeling that emotion want to protect whoever they felt LOVE for. This was the emotion that all the DRUGS were trying to trick the thing that made people feel emotions into feeling. People knew that to LOVE a person felt good. Other people knew that some DRUGS felt better than LOVE. People who wanted this feeling usually ended up having something put in them somewhere or putting something else in something somewhere. Either way, you could, (or did) get a disease.**
**(For those think this is about SEX, this about injecting DRUGS. For those who think this is about DRUGS this is also about SEX.)
[Tangent]: These diseases kill you. The reason these diseases were more intelligent than humans was because that they knew they could infect more humans because they all wanted the same thing/s. These same things have been put in capitals so that you don't have to think to about this. The unfortunate circumstances for these intelligent cells were that because it was their nature to eventually kill their host, therefore they would eventually kill themselves.
They were as resourceful as the humans to which they were dependant.
Single celled organisms, and less than single celled organisms in the case of viruses, did not have any room for emotions. If you were a disease or virus you did not have emotions and therefore could not feel selfish about living or killing. Humans and these cells had a lot in common. They were always killing. They were always trying to murder each other. [End Tangent]
It never came out on video. They didn't release it because it came on VHS. Noone would touch VHS, they had heard it was a disease. The worst, most infectious, insidious, contagious and undignified diseases, (and business words about taking action) were always acronyms. When you had these diseases everyone knew you had done something that society had collectively decided was wrong. The only thing people thought that they could watch safely now was Digital Video Disks.
Emotions were complex things. Some emotions were bad, some emotions were good. Humans had emotions. Humans also had an ugly large grey mass made up of tissue, nerves, chemicals and a thick red liquid called blood. This ugly grey mass was what made emotions. It also did other stuff. Some smart people who always had the bad emotions worked out that by doing things to plants or by mixing chemicals together, or mixing chemicals with plants, could make another chemical that could fool the thing which made emotions to be tricked into feeling something that it shouldn't. These chemicals were called euphoric DRUGS. The part of the way these DRUGS worked was that they affected the level of other chemicals in the thing that made emotions. These other chemicals were called serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine and acetylcholine. Tricking the thing that made emotions sometimes made it not work properly. There was a theory that the 4 chemicals that were inside the thing that made emotions, were in the wrong quantities and balances inside the body.*
* Earlier humans thought that the body worked, and stayed working through there being 4 'humors' within the right quantities and balances inside the body. These humors were named on the elements, and each humor represented a fluid inside the body. Air was blood, fire was yellow bile, water was phlegm, and black bile was earth. To fix people, they tried to change the levels of these humors within people. This sometimes did not fix people. Sometimes it broke them. When a person broke they were dead. A long time later someone realized that this theory was a load of shit.
Ironically; when the thing that made emotions was not working properly, it made the person whom it belonged to try to make it work even less properly. Making it work less properly meant breaking it. Breaking it meant killing themselves.
The reason all these people were breaking themselves was LOVE. LOVE was a balance of all those chemicals, caused by a fondness for another person, which made the person feeling that emotion want to protect whoever they felt LOVE for. This was the emotion that all the DRUGS were trying to trick the thing that made people feel emotions into feeling. People knew that to LOVE a person felt good. Other people knew that some DRUGS felt better than LOVE. People who wanted this feeling usually ended up having something put in them somewhere or putting something else in something somewhere. Either way, you could, (or did) get a disease.**
**(For those think this is about SEX, this about injecting DRUGS. For those who think this is about DRUGS this is also about SEX.)
[Tangent]: These diseases kill you. The reason these diseases were more intelligent than humans was because that they knew they could infect more humans because they all wanted the same thing/s. These same things have been put in capitals so that you don't have to think to about this. The unfortunate circumstances for these intelligent cells were that because it was their nature to eventually kill their host, therefore they would eventually kill themselves.
They were as resourceful as the humans to which they were dependant.
Single celled organisms, and less than single celled organisms in the case of viruses, did not have any room for emotions. If you were a disease or virus you did not have emotions and therefore could not feel selfish about living or killing. Humans and these cells had a lot in common. They were always killing. They were always trying to murder each other. [End Tangent]