THE BOOK OF THE VIP
ZIGGIE
Standing on Ziggie’s shoulders
Chapter 17
nAnd even when the overwhelming majority of people learn to think that you were mostly wrong about everything,
2They still won’t believe it,
3oBecause your terminology will remain part of the language,
4And will be used every day.
5After all, your ideas were never that hard for them to accept in the first place,
6pSince they already knew that man is basically evil,
7Which is why the entire species has spent so much time over the years on qsin and guilt and suffering,
8rAnd it’s kind of comforting to know that the real problem is sex,
9sOr organic chemistry,
10tOr the mistakes their parents made when they were teething,
11uOr something else they can’t control,
12vWhich takes some of the sting out of sin and guilt,
13Even if we don’t quite know what to do about it.
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