The Worthless 99.997% of Us
My friends, a while back, before I was assigned this humble post in the Great Recliner at The Center of The Universe, my co-workers and I had a discussion concerning our worth to the company. I, ranting and raving of course, took it well beyond those simple comfines and began a monologue about how the vast majority of us will be utterly forgotten within 200 years, no matter what we have done with our lives. And now, as Galactic Observer and Universal Commentator, I have gathered a few facts and numbers to back this up. I now share them with you, my minions.
To begin with, let me set the scope. There are, give or take, 6.5 Billion persons on the Earth today. Of those, how many can any of you name right now? How many can you name that will be in the history books 200 years from now of any significance? A dozen? Thirty? Fifty would be stretching it. What percentage is that? Not very high. Can you name a hundred persons that currently are in the history book without opening a history book? Hard to do. Now back to the rest of us.
Everybody lives in their own little bubble of importance. They are very important to themselves and their family. Their importance may vary according to the ages of their children and the care they must give to others. This is the first level of importance in your world. The second level is a person's importance within their group of friends and co-workers, to include to their specific job. If their job is very dependant on that person's showing up every day, then they are very important. Whereas if a person isn't missed if they take a day or two off, then they aren't all that important. A person considered the motivator of the group is more important that the follower of the group. The third level of importance is how a person is viewed within their community where they live. For the majority of us, we are already practically invisible at this point in our worlds. This suits us fine and we could care less. Some of us, however, enjoy getting involved in our local politics and community welfare. These are our police chiefs, fire chiefs, sheriffs, and mayors.
The next level, the fourth, gets into a state or regional level. This level and higher is reserved almost exclusively for politicians, sports figures, media reporters, and entertainers, depending on their individual success. They are well know in their areas of success or skill, and may be a household name in to many. The fifth level becomes a national level, reguardless of the nation, and is very hard to achieve and maintain. Once here, where an entire nation knows and recognizes your name and face. At this level most people are as high as they can ever get. Fame and forture have been made. They may even make the record books in their chosen profession, if only for a short time. But most will be forgotten within a generation of their retirement.
The next level, the sixth, is to obtain world-wide fame. This is to become a major world political or religious leader, pop-star, actor or actress, sports hero, or international bad-guy. This level almost assures a place in the World's History Books if that person wants to get out and make history. Very few per generation make this level.
Over the millenium, there have been 43 U.S. Presidents, 300+/- Popes, 59 Monarchs of England, and 86 Emporers of Rome. That's 488 Major Historic World Leaders. Can any of you name 488 people in your life right now? The chances that any one of us, or anybody any one of us knows personally, will ever do anything noteworthy in history is so very remote as to not even be calculatable. Only 0.003% of the population of the Earth today will ever do anything that will advance mankind in any positive way, unless we consider procreation and mindless labor. 99.997% of us are but worker ants and army ants, toiling away to endlessly build up and protect the community for our future generations, who will in turn toil away to build for their future generations, who will in turn toil away to build for their future generations, who in turn will toil aaaaAAARRRGHHHH!!!!!
Okay, that's enough! We are only worth what we believe ourselves to be worth, no matter what others may think. Live for today, my minions! Forget about tomarrow. Have fun, eat what you want, go see a movie, ski down a mountain, take a cruise, do what ever you want to do (as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else) and live life to the fullest. It's your's to do with whatever you what. We are going to be the same worthless corpses 200 years from now no matter what we do today anyway. Leave a legacy or leave a pile of turds, it won't matter to the Earth's population 200 years from now, will it? It's up to you. Be worthless or try to leave something that might actually be worth something to somebody someday, and be remembered for it.
"Live Free and Prosper" my minions!
To begin with, let me set the scope. There are, give or take, 6.5 Billion persons on the Earth today. Of those, how many can any of you name right now? How many can you name that will be in the history books 200 years from now of any significance? A dozen? Thirty? Fifty would be stretching it. What percentage is that? Not very high. Can you name a hundred persons that currently are in the history book without opening a history book? Hard to do. Now back to the rest of us.
Everybody lives in their own little bubble of importance. They are very important to themselves and their family. Their importance may vary according to the ages of their children and the care they must give to others. This is the first level of importance in your world. The second level is a person's importance within their group of friends and co-workers, to include to their specific job. If their job is very dependant on that person's showing up every day, then they are very important. Whereas if a person isn't missed if they take a day or two off, then they aren't all that important. A person considered the motivator of the group is more important that the follower of the group. The third level of importance is how a person is viewed within their community where they live. For the majority of us, we are already practically invisible at this point in our worlds. This suits us fine and we could care less. Some of us, however, enjoy getting involved in our local politics and community welfare. These are our police chiefs, fire chiefs, sheriffs, and mayors.
The next level, the fourth, gets into a state or regional level. This level and higher is reserved almost exclusively for politicians, sports figures, media reporters, and entertainers, depending on their individual success. They are well know in their areas of success or skill, and may be a household name in to many. The fifth level becomes a national level, reguardless of the nation, and is very hard to achieve and maintain. Once here, where an entire nation knows and recognizes your name and face. At this level most people are as high as they can ever get. Fame and forture have been made. They may even make the record books in their chosen profession, if only for a short time. But most will be forgotten within a generation of their retirement.
The next level, the sixth, is to obtain world-wide fame. This is to become a major world political or religious leader, pop-star, actor or actress, sports hero, or international bad-guy. This level almost assures a place in the World's History Books if that person wants to get out and make history. Very few per generation make this level.
Over the millenium, there have been 43 U.S. Presidents, 300+/- Popes, 59 Monarchs of England, and 86 Emporers of Rome. That's 488 Major Historic World Leaders. Can any of you name 488 people in your life right now? The chances that any one of us, or anybody any one of us knows personally, will ever do anything noteworthy in history is so very remote as to not even be calculatable. Only 0.003% of the population of the Earth today will ever do anything that will advance mankind in any positive way, unless we consider procreation and mindless labor. 99.997% of us are but worker ants and army ants, toiling away to endlessly build up and protect the community for our future generations, who will in turn toil away to build for their future generations, who will in turn toil away to build for their future generations, who in turn will toil aaaaAAARRRGHHHH!!!!!
Okay, that's enough! We are only worth what we believe ourselves to be worth, no matter what others may think. Live for today, my minions! Forget about tomarrow. Have fun, eat what you want, go see a movie, ski down a mountain, take a cruise, do what ever you want to do (as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else) and live life to the fullest. It's your's to do with whatever you what. We are going to be the same worthless corpses 200 years from now no matter what we do today anyway. Leave a legacy or leave a pile of turds, it won't matter to the Earth's population 200 years from now, will it? It's up to you. Be worthless or try to leave something that might actually be worth something to somebody someday, and be remembered for it.
"Live Free and Prosper" my minions!
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