The Number One Killer – Part 1
Background sound: "Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being." – Robert Heinlein
“Alex, I think I know a little about this subject, I’ll take the Human Condition for $500, please.”
Trebek responds, “It’s the daily double!” and then queries: “Classification, Symbolization, Dehumanization, Organization, Polarization, Preparation, Extermination and Denial, what are they?”
Background sound: “I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure. - Agent Smith from The Matrix
Answer: “Alex, what is, the eight stages of Genocide. Alex responds: “Correct”.
Background sound: “In Germany they first came for the communists; and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews; and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists; and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics; and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Catholic. Then they came for me – and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.” – Martin Niemoller
More to come in: The Number One Killer – Part Two
Updated from 03/23/05
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
“Alex, I think I know a little about this subject, I’ll take the Human Condition for $500, please.”
Trebek responds, “It’s the daily double!” and then queries: “Classification, Symbolization, Dehumanization, Organization, Polarization, Preparation, Extermination and Denial, what are they?”
Background sound: “I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure. - Agent Smith from The Matrix
Answer: “Alex, what is, the eight stages of Genocide. Alex responds: “Correct”.
Background sound: “In Germany they first came for the communists; and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews; and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists; and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics; and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Catholic. Then they came for me – and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.” – Martin Niemoller
More to come in: The Number One Killer – Part Two
Updated from 03/23/05
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
Comments