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Alarmingly Strange Stories The Frogman by Roberto Martinez and Jon Stephenson |
| Of course this procedure was very expensive once it became public and only the extreme
rich could afford to have it done. A person who was thirty, would normally live for about forty more years. If that person had "the treatment" then he would live forty years times one hundred. That dude would live for and additional four thousand years! Five hundred years later, several generations of normal people had passed, while the same immortals watched them come and go. Most "immortals," as they came to be known, sought public office, so they could control the affairs of the state, which could not be trusted in the hands of the "fly-by-night" mortals. Simple mortals didn't have the proper perspective, because of their short life spans. They only thought on the short term. Eventually, immortals started to think of mortals as short-lived lower organisms. Like monkeys. Mortals were unimportant parasites that simply existed so the Immortals had a source of labor. Most immortals grew weary of their presence, the mortals practically died as soon as they were born and they were always begging. Itty-bitty beggars with the great big eyes, it was - unsettling. So the immortals left. They relocated all the government offices, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It was determined in a fiery court battle that public offices are to be held for a period of time relative to the person holding office, not the relative time of the rest of the world. For example, an immortal president would hold office for four years…his time, which translates to four hundred years of normal time. Thus, government officials became like gods to the lower masses. Later, the Black Hills' name was changed to "Mount Olympus." Because regular people did not have the proper perspective or intelligence to make sound judgments concerning government policies, the vote of a "lower class" person was a wasted vote, and really didn't need to be counted. The simplest solution was to go ahead and allow the lower classes to continue voting. The Immortals would simply bombard the Mortals with propaganda and convince the little parasites to elect persons that were pre-selected. If by some chance, the pre-selected winner was not elected, they would just find a way to discard the popular vote and put the pre-selected official in office. Those mortals are so simple. In summary, the lives of the common person is completely disregarded. The economy ignores the needs of the masses that would actually make the majority of purchases; therefore, no one purchases stuff because the buying masses are too poor. In other words, life sucks. |
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