Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-30692969-20161206185743/@comment-30692969-20161207122359

There’s a lot that the human race has uncovered. We’ve found tombs of kings long dead, we’ve found full civilizations dating back millions of years. Some things we’ve done were terribly horrific, some were incredible. Then, there’s the in between. Things that we’ve never learned about in a school, in a textbook, things that we find on the internet. We find these things from rumors, from word of mouth. We learn these things from being so bored on a computer that you just start clicking around, indiscriminately picking links that read to more links that lead to yet more links.

Eventually, our boredom gets to the point where we just mash the keyboard, finding words not yet created, keywords that lead to more obscure websites. We finally reach the point where it doesn’t matter what we find, we just know that we found something on a website that no one knows. When we find it, we usually instantly click off. We find another thing that catches our eye, throwing us miles away from something that very few people had probably seen. Yes, we are one click from returning to that website, but in our apathy to everything on the screen, we don’t think to uncover these websites, pushing them back down into the depths of the internet, waiting to be returned to by some unknown human being who will probably do the same as us.

Most of these websites are never returned to, remaining buried until the final day of the internet when it’s finally shut down. This day is very far away, but it’s inevitable. We know it will come, we can’t deny it, but when our internet access is taken, we’ll break down. We’ll return to our primal state, being forced to re-evolve, fixing what we destroyed. We never know when it could happen, but I digress.

These websites could hold keys to finding amazing things that could make any good human rich. These websites are few and far in between, but they exist. Next time we flip through pages, we won’t be thinking of this post, we’ll be thinking about what we’re seeing at that current moment. We’ll fail to recognize that we are contributing to the instant downfall of humanity, indiscriminately burying these websites deep underground in the depths of what we call the internet.

We are killing the human race.

All of us.

Thanks for reading it and critiquing it. I think I fixed it, I followed your notes.