Richard Baker wrote:
Brother John said:
Where do you think our primitive cultures came from? They are all
descended from higher cultures, descended from the drop outs and
"hippies" of prior civilizations.
Where did those higher cultures come from in the first place if not
from earlier primitive cultures?
Douglas Adams gives an explanation that is as likely as any other. In
the /Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe /or one of its sequels he told
the story of a colonization ship piloted by a complete insane captain
who was taking a bath on the bridge in an antique bathtub. It turns out
the the thousands of colonists in his hold, deep in hibernation, were
all of the lawyers, insurance salesmen, account executives, and other
assorted paper shufflers and pencil pushers from a civilization that had
expelled them by perpetrating a scientific hoax that their sun was going
nova. The pencil pushers were in the first of two ship seeking another
world, or so they thought, and after it had taken off and traveled far
into interstellar space, it crash landed on Earth. And mankind is made
up entirely of the survivors of that crash. We are descended from
lawyers, and petty bureaucrats.
The reason the story is so funny is because it could be true as far as
we know. We have absolutely no way of telling how we got here excepts
bits and pieces of bone, pottery, and stone tools which we can only
guess the meaning of.
Rich
GCU Troll
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