Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for November 18, 2013
Transcript:
rj: how is it you know so much stuff, tree? Tree: I've been around a long time and I pay attention. rj: That's it? heck, I can do that. no..... rj: hang on...kanye west is live tweeting his lunch... tree: ....you can't. RJ: A veggie burger? yeezus, say it ain't so!
Echo Sam almost 11 years ago
No, the problem is just the opposite. Too many people care about what others are doing, and not enough about what they themselves should be doing. Most people are obsessed with other peoples business.
bubbareb almost 11 years ago
Continue following your mindless electronic oblivion, Earthlings. Our invasion will conquer you from within your own minds, and you shall be lambs to the slaughter when we arrive to take possession of your world.
dogday Premium Member almost 11 years ago
….and Bob Marley’s dead and if you think everything’s gonna be alright, you’re already where the above writers are afraid we’re going. Congratulations; you are now Morlock food.
txmystic almost 11 years ago
Yeezus!
dogday Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Just a note on Morlocks for those not acquainted with H.G. Wells — in “The Time Machine” a traveler to a distant, post-apocalyptic future encounters a seeming Eden populated by Eloi, a race of almost infantile adult humans who are invisibly provided for. They have no curiosity about anything, are barely aware of anyone outside themeselves; they just sun, play and eat the food that appears twice daily. In this case provision is not by a Deity but by the technology-enhanced subterranean, mutated half of humanity who use the Eloi as entrees. Yes, this is a cautionary tale already being acted out if not in actual cannibalism certainly in other types of predation, ironically on the technologically-induced near-catatonic themselves.