continued…

This, of course, didn’t stop the following year’s mass waves of starvation, violence, destruction and insanity.

Ever as the failures continued in food production, all means of production in other fields were taken over and run in a similar fashion. I heard about one case involving a shoe manufacturing plant. Apparently, the automated machinery was fed it’s new instructions and promptly started producing only left footed shoes. A few of them were the standard width but over a meter long, Most, however, came out of the machinery about four and half centimeter in length and twenty centimeters wide. Theoreticians from many fields claimed that the new programs instructing the shoe making machinery were anticipating an evolutionary shift in people’s feet, so there was no problem. There was merely the inconvenience of people not catching up to evolution quickly enough.

Not that any lack of new, properly fitting footwear will make much difference. I suppose the Collapse is upon us. It actually happened much more swiftly than anyone imagined that it would. My own meager supply of food is nearly exhausted. I would go out scavenging or bartering for more, but I fear the random outbreaks of deadly violence that are occurring more and more frequently. Last week I traded all of my furniture and most of my clothing for a time capsule I intend to place this manuscript in when it is complete.

In closing, I feel a painful need to make of this story a warning to whomever may find and read it. It may seem strange that a small handful of people (scientists, theoreticians, politicians) led by the ideas of an even smaller handful of people (philosophers, philosophy professors and intellectuals) should have had such an extreme impact on the whole of our world and civilization.

I wonder, with a longing sadness, how things might have been different. I wonder why Professor Lasdyknasd wanted to advance the erroneous results of his experiment as truth. I wonder why so many supposedly intelligent philosophy professors, scientists, theoreticians, intellectuals and politicians accepted this falsehood. I wonder why most people were so eager to go along with the whole irrational disaster. I wonder why that ancient philosopher Quakelo proposed such bizarre and ridiculous theories.

I wonder why no one on our world seems to want to live.

I wonder.

The End