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Triumph of the Morons
(from “Tales from a Remote Distance, Vol. 3”)

Tom Ball

    Coco said, “Let it be known that our government was evil. But fortunately, their powers were limited by checks and balances in the system. For example, the military didn’t like the new Leader and the secret service got in the heads of the government and forced them to curtail their evil policies of simply killing off the poor.” But the poor got together and voted in a new government. This time Coco said, “This government is for the masses and is anti-intellectual. And they are persecuting the clever and they have their own secret agents to get in the heads of the clever and drive them crazy. But the old intelligence agents who were fired, nevertheless got in the heads of these new Leaders and forced them to back down from their anti-intellectual positions. But then there was war between the masses and the elite, and the masses won, with their cunning Leaders and executed the elite in a wholesale slaughter. There was no love lost for the two groups, but now all the elite were dead, and science stopped, and no one could program computers and the air car system broke down. And there was no one to operate the doctor and surgeon machines and no lawyers to advocate for the elite, which was no more anyway. And so a new Dark Age descended upon Earth. People slowly returned to farming and the cities were abandoned in favor of communes. This dark age lasted a thousand years as there were no more clever people left. Finally, one government picked the cleverest people they could find and put them in positions of power. But their attempts to revive civilization were a failure and they were voted out by the masses. And then the clever were all executed. It was like the Country of the blind. Every now and then a clever person was born, but if they didn’t toe the line, they’d be killed. And so it was that the morons triumphed.

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