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Amabile
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Morey Meets a Saratoga Springs Elder
Morey Rotfuchs Meets the Elder
At the suggestion of Red, who was certain that Morey needed more edification than he could provide, Morey was given an audience with an elder of the tribe.
“What is it you seek to know, youngster?”
“How did things get this way? Isn’t diversity an interesting benefit?
“That’s such a broad question, and one that is only asked by the ones asleep. Since you are obviously awake I take it that you are not from here?”
“No.”
“Where? The West?”
“If I told you you wouldn’t believe me.”
“I can pretend.”
“Amabile.”
“That small town in northern Italy?”
“No. That large planet far from here.”
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The elder chuckles and says: “Aha. And your name is.”
“Morey Rotfuchs.”
“You won’t mind if I call you Amabile Morey.”
“Not at all. And your name is.”
“Today?”
“No, I’m interested in the changes over time.”
“Good. Irrelevant sarcasm is innocuous.”
“I wasn’t being sarcastic.”
“That’s the best kind.”
“Whatever. Your name please.”
“Fred.”
“Fred?”
“Fred.”
“Just Fred?”
“As you wish.”
“How about Saratoga Springs Fred?”
“Fine. It’s got a beat I can’t dance to.”
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“Now that we know one another, please allow me to resurrect my inquiry.”
“Please pardon me. I didn’t even notice its birth or death.”
“I guess at your age there are memory issues. Diversity. How did things get this way?”
“Aha, let me play you a little song.” The elder pushed a button and out came:
Folks are dumb where I come from
They ain't had any learnin'
Still, they're happy as can be
Doin' what comes naturally
Doin' what comes naturally
Folks like us could never fuss
With schools and books and learnin'
Still, we've gone from A to Z
Doin' what comes naturally
Doin' what comes naturally
You don't have to know how to read or write
When you're out with a feller in the pale moonlight
You don't have to look in a book to find
What he thinks of the moon or what is on his mind
That comes naturally
That comes naturally
My uncle out in Texas
Can't even write his name
He signs his checks with X's
But they cash 'em just the same
If you saw my pa and ma
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You'd know they had no learnin'
Still, they raised a family
Doin' what comes naturally
Doin' what comes naturally
Uncle Jed has never read
A almanac on drinkin'
Still, he's always on a spree
Doin' what comes naturally
Doin' what comes naturally
Sister Sal, who's mus-i-cal
Has never had a lesson
Still, she's learned to sing off-key
Doin' what comes naturally
Doin' what comes naturally
You don't have to go to a private school
Not to pick up a penny near a stubborn mule
You don't have to have a professor's dome
Not to go for the honey when the bee's at home
That comes naturally
That comes naturally
My tiny baby brother
Who's never read a book
Knows one sex from the other
All he had to do was look
Grandpa Bill lives on the hill
With someone he just married
There he is at ninety-three
Doin' what comes naturally
Doin' what comes naturally
Sister Lou ain't got a sou
Although she goes out shoppin'
She gets all her stockin's free
Doin' what comes naturally
Doin' what comes naturally
Cousin Nell can't add or spell
But she left school with honors
She got every known degree
For doin' what comes naturally
Doin' what comes naturally
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You don't have to come from a great big town Not to clean out a stable in an evening gown
You don't have to mix with the Vanderbilts
Not to take off your panties when you're wearin' kilts
That comes naturally
That comes naturally
My mother's cousin Carrie
Won't ever change her name
She doesn't want to marry
And her children feel the same
Sister Rose has lots of beaus
Although we have no parlor
She does fine behind a tree
Doin' what comes naturally
Doin' what comes naturally
Written by Irving Berlin.
Saratoga Springs Fred said; “Ethnocentricity. It is only natural. Excepting the leeches, one is always most secure and happy among their own.”
“That was nice. Where I come from we do not have songs. We have one song. Where I come from there is absolute ethnocentricity, and the sameness is stultifying.”
“To be stultified is not the worst thing in the world. Constant harassment is one sumbitch.”
“Harassment? What do you mean?”
“I now do believe that you are from elsewhere. Either that, or demented. In either case, let me tell you how things got this
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way. Let me preface this by saying; ‘I am glad you didn’t refer to me as wise. I am just old, and thereby have happened to have seen some things the younger ones haven’t.’ When I was just a kit, we lived in communities where all sorts of beings did. It was generally peaceful and there was always someone to play with. Of course there were minor tribulations, but most cases were resolved through a little fist fight. By the time I was a young adult there was a noticeable change. “Unity” became secondary to ethnicity, and the government found that the best way to ensure a good economy and promote the general well-being was to spend money on wars and sell weapons. At the same time the advanced communities decided to help those less advanced. This was a disaster. Everyone here now knows that when something is broken, the best thing you can do is stay away from it. If you try to fix it, you will be present and blamed for its being broken. You will be required to pay damages. This made things more dangerous and the White hominids began fleeing the areas with black and brown hominids.”
“Do you have guns here in your village.”
“They are forbidden. .......... That is not to say that they don’t exist. Some people my age who saw what can happen keep them around just in case.”
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“ ......... “
“The same with books. Anyway, continuing on, the various communities began seeing themselves as more and more separate, and worse, some saw the others as enemies who had caused them damage. Drugs became readily available. Complicating matters the young, White, drug addled hominids became advocates of the blacks and browns, mostly in a secret desire to remain relevant when what they were really advocating was an end to their being drafted into a bogus war. This gets complicated another step, in that well-balanced drug users don’t become addled. They use it for fun like drinking and watching sports, and curtail it when their other duties show themselves. But, many do become addled, as they were likely somewhat unstable to begin with, and the drugs became a disguised escape, which was really a trap, further enriching the powers that be as well as some wannabees.”
“I guess you have no drugs here?”
“They are forbidden, which is not the same thing as saying that they don’t exist. Once a technology or a substance is invented, it is virtually impossible to ever be fully rid of it. ...... Which moves me forward a decade to the invention of the internet. By this time, the White, black, brown, red, yellow conundrum had splintered into further hybrid sub-factions
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primarily due to migration and the young White explorations. The “identity” culture which the net maximized, also maximized everyone’s anger, and tendency to blame everyone else for whatever they came to dislike in their own existence. Meanwhile, the drugs kept getting stronger, more large players got involved in their distribution, resulting in the mentally feeble becoming hopelessly addicted, totally useless, totally thieves, and homeless, using whatever money they could steal to buy drugs.”
“Wait one second right there. That sounds absurdly self-destructive.”
“Yes, it does. But, it has been shown in the study of rats, that if they are given the option of getting something euphoric by pushing a button, they will ignore food and keep pushing that button until they die.”
“Don’t tell me. So the responsible users of drugs are penalized because of the rat’s problem.”
“Precisely. But, getting back to the main story outline, the cities became places which were occupied by the blacks, browns, yellows, and their hybrids, in tandem with the drug addled Whites. Hehehe. The funny thing is that for all their stated love of diversity, equity, and inclusion, they each settled into neighborhoods which were predominately of their own kind. So
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every major city had their Chinatown, International District which really means Asian, Little Haiti which really means black, Little Havana which really means brown, Upper East Side or Upper West Side where the Whites live, etc. etc., the finer gradations continuous and continuously boring. What I really find amusing is how in areas like Little Haiti, the blacks advocating solidarity, continually shoot and kill black members of other gangs over crap like graffiti posted in another gang’s territory. We Reds have opted to leave the shit for the idiots, and make our own way out here, away from the jerks who can’t leave you alone. Here’s another song:”
Wooden Ships
Crosby, Stills & Nash
(One, two, three)
If you smile at me, I will understand
'Cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same
language
I can see by your coat, my friend, you're from the other side
There's just one thing I'd like to know
Can you tell me, please, who won the war?
Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now, haven't
got sick once
Probably keep us both alive
Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy
Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline, let us be
Talkin' 'bout very free and easy
Horror grips us as we watch you die
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All we can do is echo your anguished cries
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving, you don't need us
Go, take your sister, then, by the hand
Lead her away from this foreign land
Far away, where we might laugh again
We are leaving, you don't need us
And it's a fair wind
Blowin' warm out of the south over my shoulder
Guess, I'm going to set a course and we will surely-
We will surely go (go)
Written by Paul L. Kantner, David Crosby, and Stephen A. Stills.
Morey said: “You guys sure love those berries.”
“Mushrooms too. Stuff God made. Before the time passes, I’d like to point out that one’s conclusions are a function of one’s background and thereby inherent point of view. As one of many possible examples, a White who has grown up around stable blacks tends to side with their “demise,” while Whites who have seen a larger database inclusive of black misbehavior tend to find fault, suggestive of the need for law and order, if not war; that which they justify as having already been started by the other. The recognitions aspect is much too meta to characterize the situation with anything not in the pocket of a libtard college professor in search of young, inexperienced students to entice; that unreality the antithesis of the actual reality
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demonstrated not the least bit artfully with garish spray paint on any available wall.”
His question answered at length, not necessarily to his liking, Morey decided to leave and see more things for himself. He teleported to Saratoga Springs Town.