Every day I will write the very beginning of a story, a paragraph or a whole page, without worrying about where it might lead. "Nulla dies sine linea," I hope!
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Pageant Question: Who do you think will be the first woman to become president? Why?
I remember learning in Ancient History that when faced with the first knowledge of what they called "alien" life, Earthlings went to war with each other. Leaky, I know, but that's what they did! War used to happen a lot on Earth, and the reasons were both complex and animalistic. Earthlings didn't like change, and they were intensely self-absorbed. Individual Earthlings were self-absorbed, and their increasingly larger tribes were self-absorbed. They had family tribes and community tribes and religious tribes and belief tribes and national tribes not to mention a starload of sub-tribes. The change that came from the "aliens" shook up all those tribes. It's ridiculous to think how many they killed while fighting change. The word "eventually" is a horrible way to skip over those decades of death, but eventually Earthlings created a panel able to handle their new, galactic world.
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