http://www.writerq.com/mobile/penman/ Latest updates from Jerry Steiner http://www.writerq.com/mobile/library/851/humanity-a-lost-cause/ I'd really like to be an optimist, but I have to be honest with myself and to admit that nothing's going to change for us. None of the major areas of our earthly experience seems to be salvageable. For instance:
We simply WON'T stop finding reasons to kill one another! That's true in our town and cities and in our nations. I have to conclude that we must ENJOY acting like wild animals towards each other. Why else would we never give up going to war? I'd blame it on corrupt leaders or greed for power, but then I realize that the "scale " of our viciousness includes every group of people from the neighborhood "gangs" to the largest nation states! We just think and act like killers, and that depressing fact has never ever changed.
We use all sorts of excuses for becoming animals. Race, religion, language, and national borders are some of our favorite reasons for attacking our fellow humans, but any excuse will do. No conclusion is possible except that we ARE animals, and are vastly more dangerous than tigers or great white sharks because we're smarter! That accident of evolution allows us to be really efficient and effective when we carry out our "natural" instincts to kill our fellow man. We can't overcome nature.
The world is becoming more dangerous for our species as our population grows and our weapons improve. We have the means to destroy our environment, and have invented the motivation to make ourselves extinct rather soon now,. After all, given our history and unchangeable natures, it was always inevitable that we should take the final step on our long and bloody careers as killers. We will become out own final victims!
Of course we are builders and artists and creators of great beauty. But nothing that we build can withstand our terrible drives to destroy things! What good is genius if we use it to invent hydrogen bombs? We have always carried the seeds of our own destruction in our blueprints, and the time for our ultimate destruction is almost here.
I understand how amazingly lucky I am to be living where I live and in my time. I know that the average human lives in conditions that absolutely horrify me, and that my comfortable life would be the envy of at least 70% of the world's population. I don't slave in a rice paddy or go hungry every day. I have great medical care and every day is a holiday for me. I now that the Emperors of ancient times lived in conditions that would make me shudder if I had to endure what they accepted as lives of luxury. And this is the last time period in which my wold will be able to offer anyone in my species a life on Leisure Drive!
I really don't feel sad to know the truth that humanity is nearing the end of its time on this planet. We deserve no better, and maybe in a few thousand years another dominant species will emerge here and will be more successful than we were. This is actually a very nice place to live and I hope the next tenants appreciate that fact.]]> http://www.writerq.com/mobile/library/851/humanity-a-lost-cause/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:19:20 +0000 Jerry Steiner http://www.writerq.com/mobile/library/709/my-standup-comedy/
It's like their lives orbit around that rectangular piece of steel...and it's not even a sphere!

I can’t disagree though…I’m one of those people that just can’t part with their phone.

Every few minutes I’ll be checking my phone. (mimes checking phone) Oh look! I have…zero missed calls, zero new texts, the Facebook frontier is quiet…

Then I remember I’ve had zero incoming calls, zero texts, and I have three friends on Facebook: mom, dad, and grandma. I used to have four but then grandpa died.

Anyways, I’ll still be sitting there, or standing there, no difference, with my phone, just messing around with it.
I have one of those sliding phones…(towards audience) how many of you guys have those sliding phones?

Well you guys know how addicting it is to just slide the phone back and forth? *click, clack, click, clack*

It’s lots of fun until suddenly, I get a call from my mom wondering why I called. *hello? Oh hi mom….no I didn’t mean to call you…no I’m not at a bar right now…yes I know I don’t have a boyfriend…no need to rub it in…no! do not set me up with someone! Um I really have to go um…make dinner. Yes, at 2AM! Love you (shake head mouthing not really). Bye!*

Later on, I’m going to bed…getting real sleepy…*ALERT ALERT. ALERT ALERT*

I jumped out of bed, wide awake, grab the gun I always keep by me in case my feelings get hurt or something...you know.

I’m going around corners like they do in the movies, looking all cool like James Bond in his dino jammies.

I get the the room where I still hear *ALERT ALERT. ALERT ALERT!* going off…and I realize it was my phone.

Nothing like a text alert full volume at 3 in the morning to get the blood flowing!

Someone actually texted me! It was…my mom.

Let’s see…I read my mom’s message first. It says that grandma died. Damnit! Now I only have two friends on facebook.]]> http://www.writerq.com/mobile/library/709/my-standup-comedy/ Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:30:38 +0000 Jerry Steiner http://www.writerq.com/mobile/penman/ http://www.writerq.com/mobile/penman/ Sun, 29 Jun 2014 03:13:23 +0000 Dante Alvares http://www.writerq.com/mobile/penman/ http://www.writerq.com/mobile/penman/ Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:11:13 +0000 Nathan Avery http://www.writerq.com/mobile/penman/ http://www.writerq.com/mobile/penman/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:51:08 +0000 Jerry Steiner http://www.writerq.com/mobile/penman/ http://www.writerq.com/mobile/penman/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:49:19 +0000 Jerry Steiner