Said Bot to Man:
“You low slow slob!
Beware my plan:
I’ll take your job!”
Said Man to Bot:
“You silly twit!
For you have caught
A crock of shit!”
Paradox, mathematics, poetry, fiction, speculations in philosophy and politics. Copyright 2024, Nathaniel Hellerstein
Said Bot to Man:
“You low slow slob!
Beware my plan:
I’ll take your job!”
Said Man to Bot:
“You silly twit!
For you have caught
A crock of shit!”
Back-File Ends of the World
Every issue of the “National Liar” reports the end of the world. That report is always on the front page, and it is always the second most important story. The National Liar has destroyed the world many different ways; by solar nova, asteroid impact, nuclear war, black hole absorption, and Judgement Day. The end is always sudden and complete; yet it never seems to have any noticeable effect on the average person’s everyday life.
Here are some ends of the world that the National Liar never got around to during its print run:
Lethal Pandemic - Homo Sapiens Extinct
Black Hole - Earth Absorbed
Ecological Collapse - Vertebrates Succumb
Alien Invasion - Mankind Exterminated
Viral Warfare - All Mammals Die
Cthulhu Returns - Sacrifices World
Earth-Moon Collision - Planet Shattered
Global Quake - Continents Sink
Earth Ejected From Solar System
Earth Falls Into Sun
Neutrino Beam Mishap Extinguishes Sun
Big Crunch - Cosmos Implodes
False Vacuum Decays
Back-File National Liar Headlines
Here are headlines and summaries for stories that the National Liar never got around to covering:
War on Chocolate
Vampires Evolve Resistance To Garlic
Government Issues $0 Bill
Monster Sports Scores
Childhood Alien Abduction Survivors
ATF invades alcohol-tobacco cult
Fundamentalists propose compromise with Satan
Rumors of Disney peddling subliminal Dollar signs
Robertson proposes censoring Bible as unsuitable for the young
Lord Baden-Powell, Founder of Boy Scouts,
Banned from Boy Scouts for Homosexuality
“Square Drug” Sweeps Nation:
New drug, invented by CIA, makes users rationalistic,
unimaginative, conformist, tense and conventional.
Suppreses artistic and mystical insight. Overdose causes
users to commit tax evasion, lobbying, downsizing and other
atrocities.
Federal Reserve proposes Communist Capitalism;
Achieving Leninist oppression and poverty by nominally free-market methods.
Reagan Double Presidency:
Hinkley’s bullet hit Reagan’s brain; a double was brought in;
the story was suppressed until now; the “Alzheimer’s” was a
cover for brain damage.
Dinosaurs Return:
Intelligent dinos cloned: they like obsolescent things like big cars, command economies, vacuum tubes, sexism, smokestack industries.