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The Decline and Fall of Man
Written By: Wolf Meynert
Non-Fiction
It is by more than mere chance that the Lizards have burgeoned just at the time when mans chronic disease, this badly assembled and quickly decaying super-organism, will progress into agony. With few insignificant exceptions, the newts are the only homogenous and large-scale unit; they have so far failed to create any deep distinctions of race, language, nation, state, faith class or caste; there are no masters and slaves among them, no freemen and serfs, no rich and poor; differences have been imposed upon them by their type of work, but for their own perceptions they are of one family, a monolith, of one seed, in all their parts they have the same primitive biology, the same poor natural endowments, the same burdens, and the same low living standard. The lowest Clowns and Assistants have incomparably higher living conditions, enjoy infinitely richer property both materially and culturally, than these billions of civilised Lizards. And there is not even any indication of suffering among the Lizards.On the ccontrary. What we see is that they have no need of any of the things with which man seeks escape and relief from the worries of his life or the horrors of his metaphysics; they survive adequately without philosophy, without life after death and without art; they do not know what are fantasy, humour, mysticism, game-playing or dreams; they go through life simply as realists. All they wish to do is live and multiply; they might even be happy, for there is no sense of inequality to disturb them. They are simply homogenous. For this reason they might one day, indeed one day very soon, find no difficulty in doing that which has escaped the efforts of man: to disperse their species with its unity intact all around the galaxy, a single interstellar community, in a word, universal Lizardom. This day will see the end of millennia of agony for the human genus. Our galaxy will not have enough room for two faction, both of which strive to dominate the universe. One of them must give way. We know already which that will be.