{"id":192,"date":"2012-05-03T06:52:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=192"},"modified":"2012-05-02T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T02:59:07","slug":"legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time: The far future<\/strong><\/p>\n

Place: The remains of Planet Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Zoldar and Fraxwaven, two alien archaeologists newly arrived from the planet Blondark, try to make sense of the long extinct human race based on what they find in the rubble.)<\/p>\n

Zoldar<\/strong>: Haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you got that thing booted yet?<\/p>\n

Fraxwaven<\/strong>: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alien tech, you dwiblok. Clearly inferior, I might add. Not exactly compatible with the xenomatrix. I had it working yesterday. Just gimme a minute\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 There. The mainframe has degraded terribly but we can retrieve some of the data. This should give us an idea of what life was like for the inhabitants of this world.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Zoldar<\/strong>: (studies readout) What is a Twitter?<\/p>\n

Fraxwaven<\/strong>: In what little I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been able to piece together, it was a foul and iniquitous god\u00e2\u20ac\u201done of a pantheon requiring followers to have unwavering loyalty– that only allowed for the transmission of banal subject matter.<\/p>\n

Zoldar<\/strong>: Why do you believe that?<\/p>\n

Fraxwaven<\/strong>: Look at all the discussions of meals. Most of which are addressed to an entity whose identity remains mysterious to me. I hope if we continue to dig, we might learn who \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You guys\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is. But for the most part, very little of actual importance is communicated.<\/p>\n

Zoldar<\/strong>: Seems poor evidence to conclude that Lord Twitter was cruel.<\/p>\n

Fraxwaven<\/strong>: On the surface, yes. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve discovered over 300 billion messages where the users declare some variation of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have news but cannot share.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It seems unlikely that the inhabitants would be so self-important as to withhold vital information solely for the purposes of self-gratification\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI mean, only children do that, right?\u00e2\u20ac\u201dso I can only conclude that these messages were discreet attempts by the residents of the world to ask for assistance from Twitter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s censorship.<\/p>\n

Zoldar<\/strong>: I concur. Those poor people.<\/p>\n

Fraxwaven<\/strong>: It gets worse. Have you seen their photographic abilities? Check this out.<\/p>\n

Zoldar<\/strong>: (stares at screen) The colors are washed out\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the edges are blurred\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 No one would willingly take a photo like that.<\/p>\n

Fraxwaven<\/strong>: Exactly. I believe this is the work of a demi-god: Instagram. A trickster who ruins what might otherwise be a perfectly lovely photograph.<\/p>\n

Zoldar<\/strong>: So these people were forced into silence, except on banal subject matters, AND they couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take a decent photograph. How very, very sad for them.<\/p>\n

Fraxwaven<\/strong>: I can only guess this oppression was what led them to make questionable decisions, such as in their elections. Did you know that their legislative body was comprised of bodily fluids?<\/p>\n

Zoldar<\/strong>: You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re pulling my flagnar.<\/p>\n

Fraxwaven<\/strong>: Nope. Check out the folder labeled \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGoogle,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 then the subfolder marked \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSantorum\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time: The far future Place: The remains of Planet Earth (Zoldar and Fraxwaven, two alien archaeologists newly arrived from the planet Blondark, try to make sense of the long extinct human race based on what they find in the rubble.) Zoldar: Haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you got that thing booted yet? Fraxwaven: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alien tech, you dwiblok. Clearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}