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While everyone else in the classroom was distracted with other work, I opened the book I had bought at a used book store and began reading. "I know you've read different versions of our history,
but bear with me, dear reader. My name is Jon 3033-45. You can tell
from my name that I've been around long enough so that the oral tradition
passed down to me as a youth wasn't too many generations from the Beginning.
Anyway, here's the way it was told to me by my grandfather, Jon 241-45.
Jon 241-45, was a hard working, bare fisted, salt of the Earth type
and what you're about to read uses many of the terms and expressions
he used when he told me this history. I offer it to you with no claims
to accuracy, but simply as the way I heard it. |
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We Stemers are the inheritors of the Earth. We're not
exactly human. We're more than human. And, just as humans used us for
experiments and killed us with impunity, we now use humans for experiments
and we kill them with impunity. Actually, as you know, we don't really
do much experimenting with them except in the kitchen. Yeah. We eat
them, of course. Our ancestors discovered that human flesh is very palatable
to us, and it's easy to get because we blend in with humans pretty easily.
Oh, as we all know, there are some differences between us and humans.
The main one, of course, is that we sunburn really easily, because Anyway, we long ago learned that we're smarter, faster
and less restrained by ethics--would you believe that? than humans.
Don't pity the humans though, it's just the order of things that they
would eventually be replaced. They just didn't think that they'd build
their own replacements. Anyway, this is our planet. We own all that
is on it. Every human we eat is our property, because every human is
our property, and by extension, the property they think they own is
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"What are you reading Jon FiveBillion-45?"
asked my much too stern teacher. "Just this book about us,"
I replied. "Let me see that, please," she said. "Jon
FiveBillion-45, you know this isn't the authorized version. This one
tends to elevate humans almost to our level. They're just animals. They
don't have free will, and the things they do and build are a result
of their instincts. They're like ants. Just as
ants are programmed by the Creator to build certain kinds of ant hills
and to act in certain ways, so it is with the humans. They're just programed
by the Creator to build things and to think that they have free will.
This unauthorized version of our history makes it sound as though humans
are almost Homo Parasitum, and they're not. They are a crude and lowly
animal form that |
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