The Year 50,000 AD is coming. Are you going to be remembered? No.

And it probably wouldn't be a good thing to be remembered. We would probably be considered to be very barbaric. My friend Mike and I took this supposedly very alternative class back in college, where we studied Free Schools and other alternative education possibilities, but the professor who was teaching the class wasn't at all sympathetic, and really questioned the value of any education which wasn't accredited, and as part of a liberal arts University, he was probably half right at least. Still it was boring to listen to him drone on in his cynical manner. He had this catch phrase about how most of us are just "cogs in the machine". Sometimes we were easily replaceable "cogs in the machine". sometimes we were oppressed "cogs in the machine", sometimes we were all meaningless "cogs in the machine". So one day my friend mike passed me a note. It was a fake Help Wanted Ad: "Wanted Cogs, must be able to be a meaningless replaceable nobody........etc.  It was painfully funny at the time. Mostly because someone was passing me a note in college, also I was so bored and desperate for a little levity.

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