I think paper is a rather intelligent invention, but has no long term purpose. At least 70% of the world’s everyday and intricate things are put on paper. Receipts, titles to land, machinery, weapons, tax documents, loan statements, comics, anything of any value is documented on paper. Whether it be the directions to correctly fire a nuclear warhead, or the manual to drive a car, paper holds all of our necessary information. And it is one of the most fragile and easily destroyable items the human has.

I mean, think about it. It dissolves in water and becomes useless. It is one of the first things to catch aflame in a fire. It is incredibly soft, crushable, shred-able, tear-able, not good with the aging process, and so light, it can float away if you breathe too hard. And we entrust our very freedom and civil rights to a piece of paper? Do you know some of our hard earned tax dollars are actually spent keeping a piece of paper from deteriorating? That’s right, the Declaration of Independence has to be kept in a sunlight, and air proof box so that it won’t fade into oblivion. A damn air-proof box! The very sh*t we need to keep alive besides water and food is destroying that which makes us free. Because it is on paper. Of course, it is all on disk and probably impossible to destroy, but none-the-less.

What if we all die and some civilization years from now want to learn about us? They won’t be able to learn a damn thing except we lived above ground and died. Besides that, there ain’t much they will know do to the fact that all of our priceless knowledge will be lost by the high winds blowing through the building because someone left the door open when they died. How do we know about ancient cultures? We looked at the rock they carved into and the wood they beat…. That doesn’t sound right. The wood they chipped away at.

Well, I guess my rant about paper is over- just something I thought everyone else should hear about. Take a minute and think about what I have said. Ok, you can stop now. Toodles.