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See if you can believe this. You see, there was this planet that orbited a completely ordinary star somewhere in a pretty ordinary galaxy. It happened that this planet was inhabited by the most incredible life forms that the universe had ever produced. At least, if you asked them, that's what they'd tell you. It was woven through their literature, their religion and their politics. If their literature didn't say that they were the most civilized and advanced group of life forms the universe had ever produced then their religion claimed that they were the only intelligent life form that God could have ever made. And since they were the only ones, they concluded (logically enough) that they were the most important and perfect creation in all of creation. They even put themselves in importance over creations more beautiful than themselves, more harmonious than themselves or more intelligent than themselves. Although they would never have acknowledged that anything existed which fell into any of these categories. Especially when it came to creations more intelligent than themselves. They didn't know of any, so there must not be any. Oh, let me not forget politics. On this unique world they divided their world up into political divisions called 'countries'. Each country claimed that it was the most important of all the countries there were.

But I did say that these creatures were truly the most incredible that had ever existed in the universe. And this is true. But not for the reasons the creatures thought that they were incredible and wonderful. They were incredible simply because they couldn't be convinced by any means that they were not the most beautiful, intelligent and civilized creature ever to crawl out of the oceans.

Self-importance Self-absorbtion Self-love Self-loathing

Maybe they were there just so God would have someone to watch the beautiful sunsets. Think about it. How beautiful could a sunset be if there's no one around to watch it?

There was this whole society once upon a time that built machines that wasted energy. They did this on purpose and knew that most of the energy they were using the make the machines and run the machines was wasted and irretrievable. They called the machines parking lot lights, televisions, computers, automobiles, power boats, refrigerators, microwaves and all sorts of strange names. They knew that there was only a finite amount of energy that they could draw out of the crust of their planet. They knew that the process of drawing it out and using it was very bad for their air and water and land. They even knew of ways to make energy that didn't cost anybody anything and also didn't poison the air and water and land. But they didn't use them. It was too important to waste energy. Their leaders spoke about the importance of no one ever having to turn off their parking lights or televisions. Especially their televisions. There was a whole industry run on the sweating backs of hundreds of thousands of people to ensure that no one ever wanted to turn off their televisions. Entertaining 'shows' were regularly broadcast via electro-magnetic waves or through fantastically expensive cables or even more expensive orbitting satellites. These 'shows' could be anything from last year's most popular dramas to idiotic comedy to (the biggest waste of energy and effort) game shows that award money to people who fit certain behavioral patterns.

So energy was wasted and the race of people destroyed their planet with poison and didn't develop renewable sources of energy and they all died. The end

I guess I'm not in the mood to write at the moment.