God made mud.God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud
that didn't even get to sit up and look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Cat's Cradle.
See, also, Thanks a lot you dirty rats.
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Thanks Virg. I was just thinking that there aren't words to describe our very sinister leaders but I was wrong -- from page 2 of your link: "Vonnegut loves socialists — among them, George Bernard Shaw, whom he quotes as follows: “I don’t know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they must be using the Earth as their lunatic asylum.” On this point, Vonnegut isn’t kidding. The planet Earth’s rulers, George W. Bush foremost among them, are “psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences”. Vonnegut doesn ’t think much of the American media, either. “Our daily news sources, newspapers and TV, are now so craven, so unvigilant on be- half of the American people, so uninformative, that only in books do we learn what’s really going on.”
Then there are the Christians. “For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
“ ‘Blessed are the merciful’ in a courtroom? ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’ in the Pentagon? Give me a break!"
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