In case you have any doubts that, as the Crown of Creation, we aren't the most arrogant species to walk the planet, let us concede our genius at making and using tools, combined with the niftiest thumbs in nature makes us the current undisputed heavy-weight champions of the world.
And then, after we've done that and ignoring the reality that we've yet to find a means of harnessing any of our genius to overcome hunger, racial and ethnic hatred and so many other failings and failures of human nature, what have we come up with, instead, to distract ourselves. Submitted for your approval: Stupid Human Tricks like Foam Fighters Pacific (or Britain or Europe).
I'm not being snarky about it because I have an android instead of an I-phone, because the 'app' is free for either (sorry Blackberry, again) and the game, I'm told by those who know about these things, is 'dirt cheap' at under ten bucks. Rather, I can envision a moment at the end of the world despite being a FARC, when God, or Someone like Her/Him, regards all of us assembled with a mixture of disgust and contempt while turning to glance in a mirror and mumbling 'image and likeness, I think not!'
Not sure being able to win a dog fight while sitting on my couch or strafing an approaching army while reclining in a hammock is really the highest use of technology and of our brains with all the (real) worlds yet to conquer, but it seems on more days than not you can sweep a city block anywhere and pack all the ignorant SOB's you've gathered up in a sack, hit the sack with a bat and you'd hit the right one.
Unless, of course, we have an app for that as well.
-bill kenny
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