THIS MODERN WORLD

HOLOGRAPHIC TEACHING INTERFACE ACTIVATED!
GOOD MORNING CHILDREN! TODAY WE'LL CONTINUE
OUR STUDY Of YOUR 21IST CENTURY ANCESTORS - - KNOWN TO HISTORIANS AS THE WANKIEST GENERATION!

YOUR ANCESTORS WERE DEFINED BY THREE PRIMARY CHARACTERISTICS:
THEIR UNSHAKABLE ADDICTION TO OIL ....
THEIR IRRATIONAL SUBSERVIENCE TO THE RICH ...AND,
of COURSE THEIR ALL-CONSUMING FEAR.

LIKE TYPICAL ADDICTS, THEY REFUSED TO ADMIT THEY EVEN HAD A PROBLEM!
FOR INSTANCE, THEY INSISTED THAT THEIR MULTIPLE, ENDLESS WARS, IN ONE OF THE PLANET'S PRIMARY OIL-PRODUCING
REGIONS,ACTUALLY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH OIL!
TRY TO STIFLE YOUR LAUGHTER, PLEASE.

THEY WERE SPENDING AT LEAST TWO BILLION DOLLARS A WEEK ON THESE WARS —
WHICH WOULD BE ABOUT $700 KATRILLION IN To-DAYS CURRENCY;
AND
YET, THEY SIMULTANEOUSLY DECIDED THAT WHAT THEY REALLY NEEDED AS A SOCIETY...WERE LARGE
TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTH!

YOU SEE, YOUR ANCESTORS APPRENTLY BELIEVED THAT THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF SOCIETY WAS TO REDISTRIBUTE THEIR NATION'S WEALTH TO THOSE WHO ALREADY POSSESSED MOST Of IT.' ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS WERE SECONDARY!

YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW WELL THAT WORKED OUT.

FINALLY, WE MUSTN'T OVERLOOK THEIR OVERWHELMING, CONSTANT, ENDLESS FEAR THAT SOME BAD THING MIGHT HAPPEN SOMEDAY!
IN RETROSPECT, IT'S CLEAR THAT CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE RULE of LAW NEVER STOOD A CHANCE AGAINST THEIR COLLECTIVE, SOCIETAL ANXIETY DISORDER!

THE ULTIMATE LEGACY OF THEIR MALIGNANT STEWARDSHIP OF THIS ONCE-THRIVING NATION WAS, OF COURSE, A HELLISH AND DYSFUNCTIONAL POST-APOCALYPTIC NIGHTMARE—OR, AS
YOU BIOLOGICALS CALL IT, "DAILY LIFE!"

AND THAT'S ALL OUR TIME FOR TODAY.'
WE'LL CONTINUE NEXT WEEK— AT LEAST, WITH THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVEN'T BEEN CAPTURED BY ORGAN HARVESTERS OR SOLD TO MUTANT SLAVERS!

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