Issue 29, Page 14
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Transcript
1: Idowu speaks, masking fear with aggression as she readies the spear once more.
Idowu: Krizman. Aneirin Krizman. If you’re still in there, you have to know what’s going on…
2: Njeri has stood to yell into a microphone. Jackson stands to contest his orders.
Njeri: We have to get them out of there – Away team! Fall back!
Jackson: Belay that order.
Eliminate Krizman.
3: Jackson looks coldly at the screen.
Njeri: Jackson?!
Jackson: This mission needs to happen. No delays.
4: Idowu stands ready to lunge with the spear.
Krizman: When we saw us… here in this old temple, we knew we had to rejoin us. We knew we could go peacefully and slip into our own dark, warm embrace…
5: Krizman now looks directly at Melissa again.
Krizman: After all our struggling, all our fighting… it felt like heaven to just… let go.
6: Melissa looks worried.
7: Krizman’s head tilted as he speaks.
Krizman: Every strife, every trouble we’ve limped through… it all washed ...away. No more proving ourselves. No more climbing… No fighting. No striving. Just… support. Love… The belonging of… us.
Where we belong. Where we came from. Where we were always going to end up…
I mean… yeah. What are the downsides? Giving up all past accomplishments? All of it was to bring comfort. Here you get it for free. Giving up free will? That only really matters when you know what it is, and you only really use it to make your life better in some way, or to feel better. Which, again, you get for free.
When we want things in the world, of the world, we don’t necessarily want them in order to feel comfort. Our preferences are up to us, and we can choose to prefer, for example, that humanity thrives, over our own sense of comfort. Even if that desire originates with some deeper psychological drive for comfort, it does not have to reduce to its origins. We start playing a musical instrument in order to try something new, develop a skill, whatever. But if we keep playing it for a lifetime, the original goal stops mattering, it’s just incidental. Often we start valuing the instrument for its own sake, we want to see other people try it out, we want to see the skills passed on to the next generation. Once we adopt the instrument as a value in itself, there’s not some chain of logic that ought to talk us out of it .. because our values are up to us.
Krizman seems to have either become the moon priest…or a Torgo-esque caretaker of the moonbase.
Either way, it probably beats his old job.
Ok time to Pannic!!
I feel it says something about me, that this would totally work on me.