As the world changes, so do our needs. As our needs change so does the world.
Who needed literacy 20,000 years ago? Who needed the internet just twenty years ago? In just twenty years hence, you might need a garden and a second head complete with penile attachment. To show you’re stylish and forward thinking, perhaps you’ll grow the garden on your clothes and your second head not only has the penile attachment but a matching scrotum chin. There, you keep your DNA computed, semen tweets translated direct from thoughts.
You meet up with a friend who has a head womb to ejaculate and impregnate with a dream. Few days later, its head gives birth, via self-organizing vomit, to a chimera that acts like a carnival barker, spouting your combined ideas on street corners, hawking only the finest dream images to bored commuters for credits uploaded into your organ banks. A good portion of this is paid as a bribe to the cancer corporations so they keep your substitute kidneys healthy. The rest is spent on dream improving drugs. After all, you’ve gotta stay current or get left behind. Get left behind and all your replacement parts get the fucking cancer. It’s a fierce ecology.
Just ask your chimera.
Right now, it’s wrestling over the prime real estate with other creatures of the same type. Winning some battles, losing others and every minute becoming obsolete. When it’s not fighting it’s desperately mating to birth fresh fantasies, hoping to get its own cash flow going, hoping to sell little monster dreams to other chimeras and save the money to buy an upgrade into full human status. It’s not likely. But it’s the only chance it has.
More likely, it’ll just collect wounds and weaken until the young drive it off into some death ghetto where it’ll be eaten and turned into compost by the garden trolls. Those god-damn garden trolls. With their pointy hats and big blind eyes, selling the compost back to humans as dream enhancing drugs. Always pricing it beyond reason.
They only come out at night. Preserves the skin.
And they’re vain about that.
Crossposted at The Wordwide Culture Gonzo Squad Inc.
1 comment
Alex
August 28, 2009 at 7:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh, I see.