#2 Be More Like Jesus
Apr 10th, 2008 by doing better
Even if you’re not religious, it will upset the governments of the world if we all be more like Jesus, and that can’t be a bad thing, can it?
When six billion of us have taken Jesus as our model, given away our wealth and overhauled our lives to prepare for the coming apocalypse, the world’s economic systems will collapse overnight, as well as the travel and communications infrastructures. People in cities will begin to starve immediately because no food will reach us. Subsistence farmers in rural areas will be OK if they aren’t too busy wandering the earth preaching and preparing for the end. It really will be the end of this world for most of us because everybody will starve pretty fast, and if we change our minds we will be distracted by rioting and cannibalism before we die. Governments will implode, but no one will notice or care. Being like Jesus in this instance will basically be like nuking the human race, though I don’t suppose other species will mourn our passing. It will be an interesting time for anthropologists and students of human nature.
Speaking of politicians, do you think we should enact a law requiring that all presidents and prime ministers face ritual death at the end of their time in office, so that only the most selfless, inspired people would try out for the job? Or the most elderly. Or the most insane.