SK: I ask again, what was the truth according to John Smith?
JS:   
 Later in life, when people were counting the number of wells and 
starting to not buy the “dead Dino” story, scientists made an even more 
ludicrous claim.  They claimed the jungle and forest, which covered all 
of the land during the age of the dinosaur, was also decomposing and 
creating large pools of oil.
SK:  Why was this so ludicrous?
JS:    Admittedly, plant and animal life will share some mineral content, and all things will create some kind
 of goo when they reach that liquefying stage of decomposition.  
However, I do find it a stretch that both would end up creating crude 
oil, no matter how much heat and time were applied, unless crude is a 
very tiny subset of minerals that survive decomposition. 
Eventually,
 scientists started claiming crude was caused by decaying plant and 
animal life.  I guess fish never played into the formula.  Scientists 
really had no choice.  They had to explain to an increasingly skeptical 
public why some crude was yellow and some black.  Some crude was 
fast-flowing liquid and other crude was a solid brick.
SK:  I ask again, what was the truth according to John Smith?
JS:   
 Crude oil is decomposing humans from earlier cycles.  Each cycle lasts 
an unbelievably long time, as far as human life  is concerned.  Humans, 
by and large, have a need to build communities.  As the cycle 
progresses, these communities become cities of a massive scale.  When 
the earth shifts and heaves its continents around, these cities are 
buried deep in a matter of hours, if not seconds.  They are buried deep 
without air or the nutrients needed for bacterial decomposition.
The
 steel eventually reverts back to iron and carbon; the concrete, to 
limestone and sand.  I’m not certain what happens to the glass other 
than the fact it is crushed into pieces so tiny one wouldn’t notice them
 coming up with the drilling mud.  The humans and their pets, 
though—they are crushed and eventually, the heat of the earth cooks them
 into crude.
SK: 
 That is a disgusting thing to say.  We have one of those oil sites 
oozing stuff out of the ground near our city! People use it for all 
kinds of things.
JS:   
 Humans are useful in a variety of forms.  Have they invented a product 
called petroleum jelly yet?  It’s kind of greasy, helps cuts heal and 
looks a lot like animal fat.
SK:  Oh!  I cannot believe I’m being forced to sit here and listen to this!
JS:    Do you think I’m the first to point something like this out?  I suppose you have never heard of cannibalism either?
SK:  Another disgusting tale to frighten children!
JS:   
 Oh no.  It was real and existed in various forms around the globe.  
Even in large cities, where everybody claimed it never happened, you 
would see the occasional news report that someone had been arrested with
 pieces of humans in their fridge or freezer.  There was even a movie 
about the earth running out of food and governments taking it upon 
themselves to make cannibalism palatable to the masses.
SK:  I simply cannot accept the premise anybody would believe such a story.
JS:   
 The story became a legend.  They would simply herd people to different 
areas of each city.  One area would be selected for recycling.  The 
people would be processed and turned into little food squares of 
“Soylent Green.”  There were lots of different colors of food squares 
made from the various forms of food still available but there wasn’t 
enough to go around.

“John
 Smith: Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars” is one big interview.
 It is a transcript of a dialogue between “John Smith” (who, as the 
title of the book implies is the last known survivor of the Microsoft 
wars) and the interviewer for a prominent news organization.
Genre – Dystopian Fiction
Rating – PG
More details about the author
Website http://johnsmith-book.com/
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
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