Fiona Buffington
Bio
Just an outlet for all my far out thoughts.
Stories (2/0)
Nobody Likes To Talk About the End of the World
I like to think that if every country had a chance to end the world, they’d find a way to mess it up. France would manage to screw something over and drop the bombs on themselves; Iceland would try to pelt people with rocks only to realize they can’t throw that far; everyone in Ireland would die of some kind of skin cancer before they got drunk enough to even hit the button; the only person in England with enough authority to commit such catastrophes is the Queen and she’d resort to the methods from the good old days—catapulting dead bodies to spread the plague, but in this case, COVID-19. Everyone in Asia would make threats up until the last second when their bluff was called and satellites saw they didn’t have any weapons, like a school bully with two broken arms; the United States wouldn’t be able to get along long enough to decide who gets to press the button; Canada’s like that weird neighbor whose master plan of “world obliteration” includes baking you brownies with too much cholesterol; and half the countries in the Middle East would be pointing and laughing at the US until they died of radiation, too.
By Fiona Buffington2 years ago in Futurism
Life is Long Enough
You always hear people saying, "Life is too short," but never, "Life is long." There's a reason for that, and it's human mindset. We live in a society that values quantity over quality and, as a result, we self-program to become producers rather than receivers. And when we do take time to stop and accept rather than produce, we feel as though we should be penalized.
By Fiona Buffington2 years ago in Longevity