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- [ The Last Night Of The World ] [ By The GNN ]
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- "THE LAST NIGHT OF THE WORLD"
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- "I should have been a pair of ragged claws
- scuttling across the floors of silent seas..."
- (T.S. Eliot)
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- The last night of the world.
- It was the last night of freedom. The stars had company by the
- impressive fire ball that was the comet of Proteus. It emerged from
- nowhere, a sensation in astronomy and it headed towards Earth. Crowds of
- scientist, well-educated men who ruled the world, discovered it and placed
- another rock on the pile of scientific progress. Eyes stared into japanese
- monitors, fingers typed fast on keyboards, modern high-tech calculations
- were made. People wanted to know details. Newspapers dug them up and
- presented them. Everything was new, the comet of Proteus was a sensation.
- Someone dropped a pen, and bent down with shaking hands to pick it up.
- The dream of knowledge turned into a nightmare. Proteus was not a friendly
- visitor that came by to say hello. The hot rock, engulfed in gases had no
- life, but were on its way to stop the entire world from rotating. It was
- on its way to the solar system. The sun would grab it and drag it into
- itself. Planet Earth happened to be in the way. All scientific data had
- the same message: Doomsday was here. In the early morning of seventh
- july, there would be no more Earth.
- How do you tell a child that its parents are dead? How do you tell the
- population of Earth that nothing meant anything any more? Well-educated
- men stood up and explained. They were not sorry; they simply explained the
- cold hard facts. This was a scientific discovery, a result of sharp minds.
- Warm air expands, molecules moves quickly under pressure, light is a
- mixture of matter and waves, Proteus was going to crush planet Earth.
- There was no place for free will, everything simply happens and we have to
- accept it. Our work is based upon analyzing how thing happen, not why they
- happen. Proteus is nothing more than bad luck. No one sent it to kill us.
- It will just happen. In four days. This is the facts, take them. If
- you leave them, you are blind.
- There was nothing more to fight for. Prisoners were released from jail,
- the government left their briefcases at work and walked home. Everybody
- waited for anarchy in the streets. As if it would matter. But there was
- no violence any more. Guns pointed downward, below the hot sun in the
- arabian desert. Enemies looked at enemies and turned their back at each
- other. Dirty faces in the jungle placed their weapons on the ground and
- left the bunkers. Street-smart gang members did not care any more.
- Big city, full of life. In four days, blown to pieces and spread over
- space, the last frontier. Countries, held together by invisible powers
- that had created border lines and complex economical structures was not
- there any more. Society had been a secure prison built of playing cards
- that now fell to the floor and vanished.
- Call your mother, you have not done it for four years. Talk to her.
- Apologize to your neighbor. Move back to the house by the mill that you
- had to leave because your money was gone. Read the book. Think. Think
- about what you really did with your life. Think of all the things you
- planned to do in life and realize how much of it that was actually
- worthless. Why did you want to educate yourself to become a brick in the
- game, play the game well and earn money? Earn money, become something and
- earn money. Die with your coffin filled to the limit with dollars.
- This was the last night of the world. No television, only a few radio
- stations with calm voices who talked about nothing and played music. The
- streets were filled with people who watched the sky. Proteus looked down
- on them. What if he can think too? some wondered. Father time was no
- longer a friend. He had become Death who rolled on his skates and laughed.
- Faster, death thought. Faster! The last global problem was how to slow
- down time. Stop the clocks! Do nothing! Get bored! Try to cheat Father
- time!
- How could any one do that? It was no longer nations and races who
- snatched the latest news. It was only humans, people and individuals who
- slowly and humble thought about the meaning of life while waiting.
- Waiting for Proteus. Even Proteus was not seen as an enemy. Proteus was
- a simple comet, that flew through deep space. It had no history, it was
- just there. Bad luck.
- Where was all the expected hysteria? Where was the violence? Where was
- judgement day, filled with confessions and rage?
- For the first time, people finally got the answer. The expectations had
- been made by everybody, for everybody else. They will do it, I will not.
- They will become mad, I will not. They will fall to their knees and beg
- for mercy, I will not. I am a rational human being, I accept the results
- of the scientific progress. They will not. I know best. Or do I?
- It seems like I do not.
- The last night fell. The sun disappeared to never return over the
- horizon again. The thick black darkness was kept away with white cold
- lights from lamp-posts and neon signs. For the first time in modern time,
- the modern rational human beings, raised their heads and watched the sky
- while thinking and analyzing dogmatic and philosophical questions. Science
- had suddenly turned out to be without meaning in real life. This was real
- life. The real life come to an end. Scientific problems are forever.
- They do not solve anything in the end. Life, is worth living. We, the
- people, are not meant to accept facts without meaning. If we had listened
- to out own thoughts, out lives had been filled with more substance. We
- were born to listen to what others say. What they said was important
- became important for us. Now is that not so any more. Now, when we
- finally released ourselves from the chains of pseudo-problems, we can start
- a new beginning. But now it is too late to live. Proteus is coming down
- to stop us. Maybe we owe the comet a lot. Without it, we had been chained
- for the rest of our lives. Now we can free our imagination, even if it is
- for only one night.
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- But.
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- Proteus never came. The next day it appeared that the comet missed
- planet Earth with a range that was too far away to be hazardous. The sun
- entered the sky from the horizon as if nothing had happened. Nothing had
- happened. It was a new day. Everything was ready to be explained.
- It took more than two years before everything went back to a normal state
- again. The invisible hand slowly grabbed the population. Countries,
- governments and violence returned. People lowered their heads. The
- meaning of life was once again replaced with a thirst for more money.
- Science threw another stone to the pile of progress.
- Blushing individuals quickly placed their dogmatic and philosophical
- questions in the darkest closet. The door was closed to hopefully never be
- opened again.
- If not Proteus returns once again.
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- ...and that is not college bullshit, I got two words for that!
- Learn to fucking type! This cop: SEDES DIABOLI +46-585-CHECKINDEX!
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- I felt so guilty about smoking and drinking I took drugs.
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