Waiting for the bus to work, I looked at the sign advertising a phone by way of showing people on vacation. Smiling white girls in trendy clothing next to a miserable looking old man holding a freshly caught fish. It occurred to me that vacations are basically rich people giving their money to poor people for overpriced accommodations and trinkets. Essentially, going on vacation is an unexpectedly socialist undertaking for being such a capitalist luxury.
As a believer in determinism, all human behaviour seems to fit in the natural order of survival of the fittest. A common mistake of people who believe in free will is to assume that determinism would only go into effect from the moment one begins to believe it, whereas everything up to that point just magically appeared outside of the natural order. Frequently heard is the counter-argument: “if people are going to do what they’re supposed to do, shouldn’t we get rid of our legal system?” This would only apply if this legal system hadn’t developed as a way for our species to regulate itself in accordance with the wishes of the majority. It is, as all things, simply a part of the current natural order. As such, judges serve as the ones who determine whether someone is sufficiently fit to be permitted continued membership of the human race.
Intending to use these together for a short play.
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